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A White House memo from OSTP Director Michael Kratsios accuses China-based firms of "industrial-scale" campaigns to distill U.S. frontier AI models, citing tens of thousands of proxy accounts and jailbreaking techniques targeting companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. The allegations, which build on the first-ever AI espionage conviction and new bipartisan legislation, raise unresolved questions about where open scientific exchange ends and trade-secret theft begins — with consequences for thousands of Chinese researchers in American universities and the labs that depend on them.