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US-based artificial intelligence company Anthropic has said it cut off access to its AI model Claude for firms linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), forgoing several hundred million dollars in revenue as part of efforts to safeguard America's technological lead.

In a post on X, Anthropic shared, "We've identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models."

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei praised India's intense developer use of Claude, with company revenue doubling in four months. He highlighted India's unique entrepreneurial energy, massive scale, fast government adoption, and potential in multilingual AI, social good, and responsible innovation.

According to the initial results, Nguema's main rival, Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze, had won some three per cent of votes on Saturday. Nguema was widely expected to secure a win in the eight-candidate race.

"In a country with almost 16 million children in need of protection and humanitarian assistance, in a country in which way too many kids are burdened with responsibilities way beyond their age, in a country where the children's rights are eroded every day, having a space like this offers the kids a respite, a safe and secure space where the kids can rest, can relax, can play and can make friends," UNICEF representative in Afghanistan, Fran Equiza said.