OpenAI Disrupts Moonshot AI Distillation Campaign

OpenAI disrupted a coordinated campaign to extract protected reasoning from its models, attributing a core cluster to individuals tied to Beijing-based Moonshot AI. Activity began July 1, spiked to 16,000 requests from over 4,000 users on July 24-25, and was fully disrupted July 28 across more than 15,000 users. OpenAI banned fraudulent accounts and closed a replay pathway.