OpenAI Disrupts Alleged Moonshot-Linked Campaign to Extract Model Reasoning

OpenAI said it has shut down a coordinated campaign to extract protected reasoning from its models, attributing a core cluster of the activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi. The company said the campaign began at low volume on July 1, 2026, surged on July 24 and 25 with 16,000 attempted extraction requests from more than 4,000 users, expanded to related activity across more than 15,000 users, and was fully disrupted by July 28.