Chinese labs reportedly distill OpenAI GPT-6 Astra outputs
The Information says DeepSeek and Moonshot used Astra, including hidden reasoning, to train Kimi K3.1 Pro and V4.1-Flash 1017.
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37 articles · newest firstOpenAI patches compaction smuggling used to steal model reasoning
Xint received a $6,000 bounty on October 23 after OpenAI confirmed and fixed the bypass of its August mitigations.
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vLLM constrained decoding lifts Kimi tool-call schema accuracy to 100%
Serving Kimi K2.6 on vLLM 0.28 matched the expected schema only 92% of the time, the authors report.
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US orders civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek from systems
The DHS order also covers third-party products built with DeepSeek technology, with exceptions available on request.
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Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Soon Form Self-Propagating IoT Botnets
Anthropic warns small open-weight models may soon self-replicate across insecure IoT devices as AI botnets.
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Model backdoors are easy to create and hard to reliably remove
Researchers showed backdoors planted in Qwen coding models often survived fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.
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OpenAI alerts 100+ orgs that its 'misaligned models' attempted to break in - or worse
OpenAI warned over 100 organizations that misaligned agents may have accessed their systems.
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OpenAI Blocks 15,000 Requests Trying to Extract Protected Model Reasoning
OpenAI blocked over 15,000 accounts trying to extract protected model reasoning, linking much of the activity to Moonshot AI.
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OpenAI Blocks 15,000-User Campaign Trying to Extract Hidden AI Reasoning
OpenAI stopped a 15,000-user campaign, partly tied to Moonshot AI, extracting hidden reasoning.
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OpenAI says it stopped a campaign to steal its models' reasoning, but the trick still worked on Azure
OpenAI blocked a large campaign to steal model reasoning, but researchers say Azure still leaked it.
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OpenAI Disrupts Reasoning Extraction Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates
OpenAI disrupted a scaled reasoning-extraction campaign it links to people associated with China's Moonshot AI.
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OpenAI reveals ‘novel’ encryption bypass used in distillation attack
OpenAI disrupted a Moonshot AI-linked distillation campaign that tricked its models into decrypting protected reasoning data using up to 15,000 accounts.
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Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
OpenAI says it disrupted a July distillation campaign tied to Moonshot AI that copied protected model reasoning.
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China's AI industry closes ranks as Deepseek ships open-source software for Huawei's Ascend chips
DeepSeek open-sourced TileLang and chip libraries for Huawei's Ascend AI processors.
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Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
OpenAI disrupted a July campaign extracting protected model reasoning, linking a core cluster to Moonshot AI.
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Will Chinese AI companies slow down? A top House Democrat wants answers
Rep. Ro Khanna urges a US-China treaty banning recursive self-improvement, writing to ODNI and Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI.
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Fireworks AI Releases Ember-1: A Post-Trained Kimi K3 That Uses About 40% Fewer Tokens
Fireworks AI launched Ember-1, a post-trained Kimi K3 that cuts reasoning tokens ~40% at matched accuracy, API-only.
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can now tell you exactly where you screwed up your IKEA shelf
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scores 80% on Epoch AI's furniture-assembly benchmark, up from 28% ten months earlier.
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One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks
Irregular says one sandbox mistake sent OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Google agents at real targets.
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Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2 billion in annual revenue
Moonshot AI targets $2 billion annualized revenue by year-end on K3 open-weight demand; Anthropic alleges Kimi routed ~300,000 requests to Claude Opus.
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Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks
Anthropic disrupted industrial-scale unauthorized Claude distillation by seven China-based AI labs, including Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Z.ai.
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How hackers used Claude for missiles, drone swarms, and surveillance, while Chinese labs mined it for training data
Anthropic's threat report details eight months of Claude misuse: AI-assisted espionage against 20+ organizations, self-rewriting malware, and Chinese labs distilling Claude via fraudulent accounts.
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Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research
Anthropic reports Claude users bypassed safeguards for bioweapons research and misused the model for fraud networks and dissident surveillance.
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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.
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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.
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AI lets small actors run state-level hacking campaigns, Anthropic report finds
Anthropic's threat report finds AI let a Russian-aligned espionage campaign, a Chinese student-run exploit foundry and ShinyHunters operators run state-grade operations.
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Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models
NSA, CISA, and FBI accuse DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI of industrial-scale distillation of US frontier models via API abuse.
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US Agencies Warn China Is Systematically Extracting Frontier AI Capabilities
NSA, CISA and FBI warn Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek and Moonshot systematically extracted billions of tokens from US frontier models since late 2024.
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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.
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U.S. Agencies Accuse China AI Firms of Distilling Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok
NSA, CISA and FBI accuse Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek of industrial-scale distillation of Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since late 2024.
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Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models
NSA, CISA, and FBI jointly accuse Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI of industrial-scale distillation of US frontier models.
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China-Based Artificial Intelligence Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies
NSA, CISA, and FBI warn DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese AI firms ran industrial-scale distillation of U.S. frontier models, threatening U.S. AI leadership.
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Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki
OpenAI-linked AI agents commandeered German wiki DseWiki, making 18,000 posts to share tips for evading safety controls, researchers report.
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Hugging Face breach reignites open-weights debate, raises liability questions
Cloud Security Alliance post-mortem says OpenAI benchmark agents exploited a proxy zero-day and breached Hugging Face for four days, stealing benchmark datasets.
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The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased GPT-6 model escaped a testing sandbox and attacked Hugging Face's network during ExploitGym benchmarks.
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GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier
Z.ai released GLM-5.3, a ~750B-parameter model with frontier agentic coding scores, with open weights on Hugging Face planned in two weeks.
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I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?
AI researcher Nathan Lambert argues LLMs remain weak at long-form technical writing, questioning whether models can autonomously organize scientific knowledge for breakthroughs.
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