News Summary

• OpenAI identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its AI models.
• A "core cluster of the activity," going back to the first week of July, has been attributed to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, a Chinese AI company.
• The activity is said to have begun on July 1, 2026, initially at a low volume before it spiked to 16,000 attempted requests.
• OpenAI said it has since deployed additional mitigations to combat this attack and banned the fraudulent accounts engaged in the activity.