According to The Rundown AI, Anthropic claims it uncovered 24,000 fake user accounts conducting more than 16 million interactions to extract Claude model capabilities, allegedly linked to DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax (as reported by The Rundown AI citing Anthropic statements). According to The Rundown AI, Anthropic asserts that rapid advances at these Chinese labs significantly rely on capabilities extracted from U.S. models, highlighting substantial model-to-model knowledge transfer risk and potential violations of platform terms. As reported by The Rundown AI, the incident underscores urgent needs for enterprise-grade abuse detection, API rate-limiting, automated behavioral fingerprinting, and synthetic traffic monitoring to protect proprietary model IP and maintain fair competition in foundation model markets.