Relays Are Masking Chinese Access to Frontier AI Models in the US
Summary
Over 80,000 AI relay servers (intermediary computers that pass traffic between two points while hiding the original source) are being used by people in China to hide their identities while accessing advanced large language models (AI systems trained on massive amounts of text) in the United States, likely to create unauthorized copies of these models.
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Original source: https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/relays-masking-chinese-access-frontier-ai-models
First tracked: September 22, 2026 at 08:01 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%