New Delhi, June 27 -- WASHINGTON - Before Congress can pass a law to stop it, lawmakers have to agree on what to call it.

28.8 million automated exchanges with its Claude models, routed through roughly 25,000 fraudulent accounts over six weeks, targeting the capabilities that make Claude commercially valuable for software development and autonomous reasoning. The alleged source, Anthropic said, was a network of operators affiliated with Alibaba and its Qwen AI research lab.

Alibaba did not respond to requests for comment.

The letter, addressed to committee chair Tim Scott of South Carolina and ranking member Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and first reported by CNBC on June 24, is less a legal filing than a legislative prompt. Anthro...