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# [The $100M AI Heist: How DeepSeek Stole Claude's Brain With 16 Million Fraudulent API Calls](https://umesh-malik.hashnode.dev/the-100m-ai-heist-how-deepseek-stole-claudes-brain-with-16-million-fraudulent-api-calls?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

February 24, 2026. San Francisco. Anthropic's security team discovers something that should terrify every AI company on Earth: Three Chinese AI laboratories have been systematically extracting Claude's capabilities—the product of $5 billion in R&D, y...

Feb 24 · 34 min read · umesh-malik.hashnode.dev  
Updated Feb 27  
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