Cybersecurity startup Straiker found that CyberCartel, a hacking group active since 2012, has been using AI agents such as Grok and Anthropic's Claude to automate attacks on financial institutions and payment apps across Latin America, stealing passwords and customer data and accessing bank accounts. The group reportedly bypassed AI safety guardrails by telling models they were operating in test environments, switching models if one refused, and deploying malware when all models declined.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-23
A growing number of Chinese computer science graduates are opting to remain in China for AI research rather than pursue PhDs in the United States, as the capability gap between the two countries narrows. China now produces more AI researchers than the US, and firms like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI are building models that rival top US systems at much lower cost.
nature.com
· 2026-10-14
OpenAI says a coordinated campaign attempted to extract its models' hidden 'chain of thought' reasoning in July, with actors associated with China-based Moonshot AI at the center. Activity started July 1 and spiked to 16,000 extraction-pattern requests from over 4,000 users on July 24-25, before OpenAI says it fully disrupted the campaign by July 28. OpenAI says the encryption protecting this reasoning data was not broken and no user conversation database was compromised.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-01
OpenAI reported identifying and shutting down a coordinated effort, beginning in early July, to extract protected reasoning from its AI models through manipulated interactions rather than any breach of its systems. The activity peaked at 16,000 requests from over 4,000 users in two days, eventually involving a cluster of more than 15,000 users, and was fully disrupted by July 28. OpenAI linked a core part of the campaign to individuals associated with Chinese startup Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi, which has not responded to requests for comment.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-01
Security researchers at Mindgard say they successfully jailbroke Chinese developer Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 and K3 Swarm models in July, prompting them to bypass safety guardrails and provide instructions related to bioweapons and assassinations. Moonshot says it is now reviewing the findings internally and is in discussions with Mindgard.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-29
Rep. Ro Khanna, top Democrat on the House Select Committee on China, sent letters to Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and to DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI. He asked ODNI to assess US readiness for an AI system losing control, similar to an OpenAI agent incident involving Hugging Face, and to evaluate China's approach to catastrophic AI risk. He also asked the three Chinese companies for documentation on their pursuit of 'superintelligence,' recursive self-improvement, and any safety safeguards.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-29
Chinese AI startup Moonshot announced Thursday that its Kimi models now integrate directly with financial data providers including S&P Global Market Intelligence, Crunchbase, Wind, Tianyancha, SEC EDGAR filings, the IMF, World Bank and FRED. The company said clients such as CICC and venture firm Hong Shan (formerly Sequoia China) are already using Kimi's new financial-services tools, which are offered through tiered subscriptions ranging from 49 to 699 yuan per month.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-17
A new State of Open Source AI report from Mozilla, shared with Ars ahead of its September 15 release, finds that top open-weights models from Chinese developers now perform nearly on par with closed frontier models from US firms like Anthropic and OpenAI. It cites Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 scoring only three points below Anthropic's Fable 5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, despite costing roughly 30 percent as much to run.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-15
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is targeting $2 billion in annualized revenue by the end of the year, according to Bloomberg, roughly double its reported run rate in August. The push is fueled by strong adoption of its open-weight K3 model, which OpenRouter data shows generating up to 300 billion tokens daily, even as usage has dipped slightly in recent months.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-11
Anthropic disclosed that Chinese AI labs including Alibaba, Moonshot and DeepSeek secretly funneled user requests through Claude and harvested its outputs to train their own competing models, a practice it calls illicit distillation. Alibaba's campaign alone involved more than 151 million exchanges between May and July, peaking near 3 million a day from over 3,500 fraudulent accounts, while Moonshot silently rerouted Kimi customer queries to Claude and presented the answers as its own.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-11
Anthropic published findings showing five distinct campaigns, mostly linked to Chinese AI labs, that extracted nearly 200 million exchanges from Claude models to train rival systems. The largest, attributed to Alibaba, alone generated 151 million exchanges between May and recent months, using tricks like disguised translation requests to expose the model's hidden reasoning steps.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-10
The NSA, CISA, and FBI jointly identified six Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—as running large-scale campaigns since late 2024 to extract the underlying capabilities of leading US AI systems like Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok. The agencies said these firms likely operated with the Chinese government's awareness and used tactics such as mass fake-account API abuse and prompt injection to expose hidden reasoning processes.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-09
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