Anthropic says it cut Claude reasoning token theft by up to 99%

Anthropic says it has cut extraction of Claude's internal reasoning tokens by 90 to 99 percent in response to industrial-scale distillation attacks. The company links the large-scale attacks to Chinese firms Zhipu and Moonshot, and has already banned tens of thousands of accounts.

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