The Great AI Heist: How Industrial-Scale Distillation is Rewriting the Rules of Intellectual Property
By PYMNTS | June 26, 2026 In the high-stakes theater of global artificial intelligence, the most valuable assets are no longer just software code or proprietary datasets—they are the sophisticated "reasoning patterns" embedded within frontier AI models. This week, the San Francisco-based AI lab Anthropic pulled back the curtain on a massive, illicit operation, accusing…
