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Anthropic says new safeguards cut Claude distillation attacks by up to 99%

Someone has been siphoning off Claude’s brain, at industrial scale. On Monday, Anthropic said it’s finally getting good at catching them. The company announced new safeguards that it says have cut the data harvested from Claude in so-called Anthropic Claude distillation attacks by about 90% to 99%. “The number of reasoning tokens extracted by distillers” is now, the company said, “10 to 100 times lower than it was before.” That’s not a small gap. ...

October 13, 2026 · 5 min · 1038 words ·