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The quiet war over who owns model intelligence is no longer quiet — and the battle lines now run through fake email addresses and millions of stolen conversations.

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Anthropic Accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of Industrial-Scale Model Theft Via 24,000 Fake Accounts

Anthropic publicly named three Chinese AI labs — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax — for allegedly creating over 24,000 fraudulent accounts to systematically extract Claude's capabilities through 16 million conversations. It is the most explicit accusation of model distillation ever leveled between major labs.

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OpenAI Ships WebSockets in the Responses API, Betting That Agents Need Always-On Connections

OpenAI added WebSocket support to its Responses API, targeting low-latency, long-running agent workflows — a clear signal that the company sees persistent connections, not request-response cycles, as the future of how developers build with its models.

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The Singularity
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Anthropic Accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of Industrial-Scale Model Theft Via 24,000 Fake Accounts

OpenAI Ships WebSockets in the Responses API, Betting That Agents Need Always-On Connections

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