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Anthropic says it cut Claude reasoning token theft by up to 99% in fight against industrial-scale distillation

October 13

Anthropic says it has cut the extraction of Claude's internal reasoning tokens by 90 to 99 percent. The company links the large-scale distillation attacks to Chinese companies Zhipu and Moonshot, and…

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