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OpenAI Disrupts Distillation Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates
OpenAI announced it had identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign targeting its AI models. The activity, traced back to the first week of July 2026, has been attributed to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, a Chinese AI company based in Beijing. OpenAI stated the campaign was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its models. The company has disrupted the activity and indicated it may implement additional safeguards. The full extent of extracted data, specific models targeted, and definitive proof of Moonshot AI involvement have not been disclosed.
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