The White House on Thursday accused Chinese entities of a massive effort to steal U.S. artificial intelligence technology and vowed to take action to prevent the alleged theft.“The U.S. has evidence that foreign entities, primarily in China, are running industrial-scale distillation campaigns to steal American AI,” White House science and technology chief Michael Kratsios said in a post on X.“We will be taking action to protect American innovation.”Distillation is a common practice within AI development, often used by companies to create cheaper, smaller versions of their own models.In February, U.S. AI developer Anthropic accused three Chinese firms, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI…