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A government alleges distillation via a covert platform and third-country chips

development2026-07-23

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The White House revealed that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable into Kimi K3 via a covert platform built to dodge detection and GB300s tapped in Thailand, with Treasury warning that open source is not open season on American intellectual property and putting sanctions on the table.

Reporting date: 2026-07-23 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to July 23, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A government alleges distillation via a covert platform and third-country chips
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-07-23
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-07-23-distillation-via-a-covert-platform-and-third-country-chips
Claim: The White House revealed that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable into Kimi K3 via a covert platform built to dodge detection and GB300s tapped in Thailand, with Treasury warning that open source is not open season on American intellectual property and putting sanctions on the table.
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- Welcome to July 23, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-july-23-2026
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