News Summary

• The National Security Agency, the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published the advisory on Tuesday.
• It names DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI.
• Distillation is the practice of training a cheaper model on the outputs of a more capable one.
• The agencies suggest providers deploy responses that subtly alter output to suspected distillers without telling them, while informing legitimate researchers.
• A Chinese embassy spokesman, Liu Chang, dismissed the allegations as a deliberate attack on China’s development in AI.