U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reiterated on Wednesday that sanctions would be considered if Chinese AI companies are found to have stolen U.S. intellectual property. Previously, White House officials accused Dark Side of the Moon of improperly distilling models from the U.S.-based Anthropic. Bessent stated that watermarks from U.S. large language models have been detected in Chinese AI models, with plans to launch an investigation in the coming weeks.
