Wednesday, 22 July, 2026
Caught Red-Handed: US Finds American AI Watermarks in Chinese Models
By TechShots Studio
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that the Trump administration may sanction Chinese AI companies following evidence of intellectual property theft. Officials detected US AI watermarks within Chinese models, indicating widespread "distillation"—a technique using outputs from advanced systems like OpenAI and Anthropic to train weaker models. The US government is now scrutinizing foreign open-weight AI for unauthorized data scraping and IP violations.
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