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‘China already has spies’ at US AI labs, claims ex-Anthropic researcher

Marcus Chen
Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 11:39 PM · 1 min read
‘China already has spies’ at US AI labs, claims ex-Anthropic researcher — South China Morning Post, Singapore Technology news
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Former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon said he was 90 per cent certain that China already had spies inside both US artificial intelligence (AI) companies, without providing evidence. Coxon made the allegation in an interview with entrepreneur Patrick Bet-David on the PBD Podcast, arguing that China could steal advances from leading US AI labs and quickly close any technological gap. “Right now, if we just stopped, they would try and catch up. But I think one really important thing...

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