conflict 2026-04-27
The Distillation War: China Is Copying US AI Models at Scale and Washington Doesn't Know What to Do About It
The White House accused China of industrial-scale AI theft through model distillation. The State Department sent a global cable. Congress is advancing the MATCH Act to choke off chip equipment. None of it addresses the core problem, which is that distillation is not crackable by export controls.