# Anthropic says it cut Claude reasoning token theft by up to 99% in fight against industrial-scale distillation

**Published:** October 13, 2026
**Author:** Manuel Uth
**Source:** The Decoder
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/anthropic-says-it-cut-claude-reasoning-token-theft-by-up-to-99-in-fight

Anthropic says it has cut the extraction of Claude's internal reasoning tokens by 90 to 99 percent. The company links the large-scale distillation attacks to Chinese companies Zhipu and Moonshot, and has already banned tens of thousands of accounts. The article Anthropic says it…

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