White House accuses China of industrial-scale theft of AI technology
Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, sent a memo to federal agency heads on Thursday accusing China-backed actors of running deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distill and copy American frontier AI models. The actors allegedly used proxy accounts to evade detection and jailbreak models to expose proprietary information. The Trump administration plans to share intelligence on these campaigns with U.S. AI companies and help develop defenses.
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