All articles tagged with #industrial espionage
Anthropic says three Chinese labs used a distillation technique to siphon Claude's capabilities through about 16 million exchanges and 24,000 fake accounts, circumventing export controls and raising national-security concerns; OpenAI has issued similar charges, prompting calls for coordinated industry and government action to counter illicit access and safeguard safety guardrails.
A former Samsung executive has been accused of stealing confidential semiconductor data to build a copycat chip facility in China. The defendant has been arrested and accused of violating industrial technology protection laws and stealing trade secrets from 2018 to 2019 to establish a copy of Samsung’s semiconductor plant. The ex-Samsung exec’s attempt to build the copycat chip plant allegedly fell through after his backer canceled more than a $6 billion investment into the project. Prosecutors indicted six other people who are allegedly the ex-Samsung official’s accomplices.