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Congress moves to make AI model distillation a sanctionable offense as Chinese labs face theft accusations

A bipartisan House bill passed committee 43-0 and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly threatened sanctions on July 21, putting Chinese AI firms accused of distillation attacks directly in legal crosshairs. Anthropic says 24,000 fake accounts were used to scrape Claude; OpenAI flagged similar activity against its models.