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White House Accuses China of AI Intellectual Property Theft
The memo says foreign actors used tens of thousands of proxy accounts and jailbreaks to extract capabilities from U.S. frontier models.
- On Thursday, the White House accused China-based entities of waging "industrial-scale campaigns" to steal U.S. artificial intelligence intellectual property, threatening to strain relations ahead of next month's summit.
- Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, detailed how entities used tens of thousands of proxy accounts and jailbreaking techniques to "expose proprietary information" from American AI systems.
- The Chinese Embassy in Washington rejected the accusations as "baseless allegations," asserting Beijing "attaches great importance to the protection of intellectual property rights." Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed Wednesday that no Nvidia chip shipments have occurred.
- Ahead of the planned summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Jinping, the administration will share information with American AI companies about the distillation tactics and actors involved to counter the campaigns.
- While distillation can play a "vital" role when legitimately used, Kratsios deemed these "surreptitious, unauthorized" campaigns unacceptable, escalating tensions in a tech war that had been lowered by a detente brokered last October.
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