OpenAI Disrupts Reasoning Extraction Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates

OpenAI on Wednesday said it identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence AI models. A "core cluster of the activity," going back to the first week of July, has been attributed to individual...

Capable yet Parsimonious: Extracting and Characterizing Hidden Chain-Of-Thought in Frontier Models

The rapid capability gains of frontier language models are widely attributed to improved reasoning abilities, yet this cannot be verified as raw CoT traces in closed-source systems are hidden. By registering a simple custom tool through a standard API feature, we induce frontier models to...