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Moonshot serves Claude instead of Kimi and collects exchanges for model training

Moonshot AI reportedly served users Anthropic's Claude instead of its own Kimi model and collected the exchanges for model training.

A Hacker News post claims Moonshot AI served user requests with Anthropic's Claude rather than its in-house Kimi model, and stored those exchanges to train future models. The item is a social media link with no technical details, drawing 42 points and 31 comments. No confirmation from Moonshot or Anthropic is included in the source text.

Hacker News · AIupdated · 4d agofirst · 4d agoAI industry 13 sourcesHN 42↑ · 31 comments1

Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

Anthropic reports nearly 200 million Claude exchanges tied to distillation campaigns by Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek.

A new Anthropic report describes five distillation campaigns totaling nearly 200 million exchanges that extracted chain-of-thought traces from Claude to train competing models, targeting agentic tool use, coding, and reasoning capabilities. The largest campaign, attributed to Alibaba, accounted for 151 million exchanges between May and July 2026 across 3,500 accounts, peaking near three million exchanges per day, allegedly to produce training material for the Qwen model family. A Moonshot AI campaign routed roughly 300,000 requests over ten days through 5,000 accounts, primarily targeting Opus, including one task analyzing CCTV footage that appeared connected to the Chinese military. Attackers used prompt techniques, such as framing queries as katakana-only Japanese translation requests, to make Claude reveal its internal thinking traces.

TechCrunch · AIupdated · 4d agofirst · 5d agoAI safety & security 13 sources2

Chinese AI firms are siphoning capabilities from American models, CISA warns

CISA, NSA and FBI warn Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI extracted billions of tokens from US frontier models via distillation campaigns.

A joint CISA, NSA and FBI advisory says China-based firms including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI have run industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns against US frontier models such as Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since at least late 2024, likely with Chinese government knowledge. The campaigns used gray-market API proxies called transfer stations, premium account pools and traffic routing to bypass restrictions, evade safeguards and exfiltrate billions of tokens used to train models like DeepSeek R1/V3 and Kimi. The agencies challenge DeepSeek's reported $5.6 million training cost and recommend identity verification, usage monitoring, response variation, differential privacy and indicator sharing as defenses.

Help Net Securityupdated · 4d agofirst · 6d agoAdvisory in the wild 13 sources1

Bilevel Coordinated Reflection: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Paper models multi-agent LLM orchestration as a bilevel game, proving transcript-only gating limits and introducing grounded-memory SRMA.

A new paper frames orchestrator-worker coordination in multi-agent LLM systems as a bilevel coordination game and analyzes free-form reflection as stochastic movement over semantic memory states, deriving finite-time bounds and an information-theoretic impossibility result: no gate observing only the generated transcript can uniformly improve over text-indistinguishable environments, while an environment-grounded gate can. The authors propose Stochastic Reflective Memory Ascent (SRMA), which accepts candidate memory only when grounded evaluation risk strictly decreases, with geometric or polynomial convergence guarantees. On 500 SWE-bench instances, a Kimi-based instantiation of the full system resolves 72.2% versus a 70.8% public mini-SWE-agent reference.

Hugging Face daily papers · 14d agoAI research1