Alibaba Stole 29 Million Claude Conversations – The Biggest AI Theft in History Explained
Imagine spending years and billions of dollars building something extraordinary. You hired the best researchers in the world. You ran millions of experiments. You made thousands of decisions about how your system should think, reason, and behave. And then someone created 25,000 fake identities, quietly knocked on your door nearly 29 million times, and walked away with the most valuable parts of everything you built. That is essentially what Anthropic is accusing Alibaba of doing to Claude. In a letter sent to US Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren on June 10, 2026, Anthropic's Head of Policy described what the company calls the largest recorded corporate espionage campaign against an AI system in history. The alleged operation ran for 45 days, generated more than 28.8 million interactions with Claude through approximately 25,000 fraudulent accounts, and was specifically designed to harvest the most sophisticated capabilities of Anthropic's frontier AI model — then use thos...