companyOpenAI
confirmedlowIncidentFirst reported Oct 1, 2026 · Disclosed Oct 1, 2026 · Updated Oct 2, 2026
OpenAI: disrupted campaign illicitly extracting model reasoning
OpenAI said it identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its AI models. A core cluster of the activity, dating back to the first week of July, was attributed to individuals associated with Beijing-based Moonshot AI.
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