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  "id": 14088837,
  "title": "Anthropic says new safeguards sharply reduce AI distillation attacks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/anthropic-says-new-safeguards-sharply-reduce-ai-distillation-attacks",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-13T01:12:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Investing.com",
    "slug": "investing-com",
    "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/anthropic-says-new-safeguards-sharply-reduce-ai-distillation-attacks-4945295"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Anthropic, the California-based AI company, announced on Monday that new safeguards have significantly reduced the risk of data theft through a technique known as distillation attacks. These attacks enable rivals to copy the capabilities of AI models like Claude, a growing concern due to the intensifying US-China competition. Anthropic claims that the implementation of these measures has reduced the extraction of reasoning tokens in distillation attacks by a staggering 90% to 99%.\n\nThe company's new restrictions on accessing Claude's reasoning have led to a tenfold decrease in the number of reasoning tokens extracted by distillers, compared to pre-measure levels. Furthermore, Anthropic has made it more challenging for malicious actors to employ proxy networks to repeatedly probe Claude's protected reasoning, thereby hindering large-scale distillation efforts.\n\nAnthropic's safety system is described as being as robust as those designed to prevent AI from aiding the creation of bioweapons, with a false positive rate of less than 0.1%. To combat distillation campaigns, the company has banned tens of thousands of accounts linked to these activities, citing Z.ai, a Chinese AI startup, as an example of a company that attempted to distill capabilities from Claude while developing its GLM-5.3 model. Z.ai did not respond to requests for comment.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Economic Times Tech",
        "title": "Anthropic says new safeguards sharply reduce AI distillation attacks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/anthropic-says-new-safeguards-sharply-reduce-ai-distillation-attacks-14105406",
        "published": "2026-10-13T02:39:47.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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