US accused Chinese AI companies of industrial-scale campaigns, Suno trained its latest models with help from Warner and BMG, and what's going on with OpenAI and the Navier-Stokes controversy?

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US officials accused Chinese AI companies of industrial-scale campaigns to copy American models.

Suno trained its V6 AI music models with help from Warner and BMG.

And what's going on with OpenAI and the Navier-Stokes controversy? It's Wednesday, September 9th, and here's a quick look at some of the news happening in the sphere of tech this morning from Engadget.

American authorities are accusing Chinese companies of distillation activities at an industrial scale. The NSA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the FBI have issued a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning organizations that Chinese AI companies are extracting the proprietary functionalities and capabilities of frontier American models. Specifically, the agencies are accusing DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and ZAI of extracting billions of tokens across millions of exchanges and requests from American models, including Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, and XAI's Grok since 2024

Distillation is the term for a method in AI development in which the output of a powerful model is used to train newer ones. The warning states that DeepSeek used data and capabilities from various Claude, Gemini, GPT, and Grok models to train its own, including the R1. That's the powerful open-source reasoning model the company released back in early 2025

Moonshot AI, the agencies said, extracted significant data from Claude's fable to train Kimi K3, which is considered one of the most advanced models developed by a Chinese company. Anthropic created Fable to bring some of the capabilities of Mythos, its state-of-the-art cybersecurity model exclusively available, to project Glasswing participants to the public. Similarly, Moonshot Kimi K2 used GPT-40 data, the agencies added. Now, the warning lists the American frontier models the Chinese companies allegedly used to train their own, along with the mitigations US firms can implement to combat malicious distillation campaigns. American companies have long alleged that Chinese firms are trying to copy their technologies. Shortly after DeepSeek became the top free iPhone app early last year, OpenAI said that, along with Microsoft, it had been banning accounts it suspected of distilling its technologies. DeepSeek was one of the companies it investigated. Earlier this year, Anthropic also accused DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of wide-scale distillation campaigns. But it's not just Chinese companies. In OpenAI's announcement about pulling its models from cursor, it noted that Elon Musk admitted to using OpenAI's output to train XAI models during cross-examination in the lawsuit he filed against the company.

AI music generator Suno introduced its new V6 family of models. The models marked the first time the company has worked with labels to train a new set of AI systems. The V6 series consists of three models, the V6, V6 Wild and V6 Mini. The first of those is Suno's new flagship offering. The company describes V6 as reliable, precise and capable of delivering consistently polished music across every genre and style. For users who want less predictable outputs, there's V6 Wild. Suno says it's designed for experimentation. According to the company, the new models are faster than the ones they replace, allowing users to listen to the tracks they generate within seconds of writing a prompt. They also offer new features, starting with the ability to edit specific sections of a song using only natural language. Additionally, you can now generate mashups from multiple sources in a single request. You can now describe a feeling you want a song to evoke, and the models will do their best to create something appropriate to that emotion. You can also replace a single lyric without generating a song all over again. You might recall that back in 2024, a group of record labels made up of the industry's largest players, including Warner Music, sued Suno and Udio, accusing the companies of copyright infringement at a massive scale. Last year, Warner dropped its lawsuit against Suno in exchange for a licensing agreement that it said would give its artists full control over how their voices and music are used in AI-generated tracks. Now, the company said that V6 is the formal start of the company's relationship with labels like Warner and BMG. Whether those partnerships are enough to legitimize Suno remains to be seen. A leak earlier this year found that the company had scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, and other platforms to train its previous models.