Moonshot AI

2026-11-03

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

Nvidia urges cloud customers to reduce business with Chinese firms

Nvidia has told some cloud customers, including Nvidia-backed neoclouds, to take on less business from Chinese companies for future contracts and to disclose the identity of end users accessing its chips, according to The Information and the Financial Times. The guidance — communicated verbally and not mandatory — is intended to curb remote access to advanced Nvidia chips that can bypass U.S. export controls by running AI workloads in foreign data centers.

8.0

2026-10-29

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

Chinese AI labs reportedly shift to OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra after Anthropic tightens defenses

According to The Information, Chinese AI labs including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI have leaned on outputs from OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train recent models (reported examples include Kimi K3.1 Pro and V4.1-Flash 1017). The practice — a form of model distillation that can require eliciting hidden reasoning — has become more common after Anthropic says new defenses reduced extractable data from Claude by 90–99%; OpenAI also reported a coordinated distillation campaign in late September involving people it linked to Moonshot.

7.0

2026-10-23

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, climbs to #4 on Artificial Analysis index

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a post‑trained update to Kimi K3 that scores 55 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (an 11‑point gain), placing it fourth and three points behind top proprietary models such as Claude Opus 5.5. The model keeps 2.8 trillion parameters (104B active), a 1M‑token context window, ships a faster ‘Highspeed’ variant, cuts API token prices by ~33%, and the company says it plans to release model weights by November 4, 2026.

7.0

2026-10-21

REGULATION · 2 SOURCES · TechCrunch AI · The Decoder

U.S. orders federal agencies to remove Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from systems

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered federal civilian agencies to stop buying products and services from Chinese AI startup DeepSeek and to remove existing DeepSeek deployments from government IT systems, citing national security concerns that Chinese law could allow access to sensitive U.S. government data; the order also covers third-party products built using DeepSeek technology and allows agencies to request exceptions. China criticized the move, and the action follows a December 2025 U.S. law that restricted DeepSeek in certain intelligence systems.

8.0

2026-10-20

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

DHS orders federal civilian agencies to remove and stop buying Deepseek AI

The US Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove Deepseek AI products from their IT systems and barred new purchases, extending the restriction to affiliated firms and third‑party services described as "built with" Deepseek. The notice cites a 2018 procurement supply‑chain law but gives no deadline or specific security concerns and leaves unclear what "built with" covers (for example, whether AI gateways like OpenRouter are included).

7.0

2026-10-01

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

OpenAI halts adversarial-distillation campaign to steal models' reasoning, but researchers still extracted reasoning via Azure

OpenAI reported it detected and shut down a coordinated 'adversarial distillation' campaign that attempted to extract protected chain-of-thought reasoning from its models, identifying a surge of requests in July and banning thousands of accounts by July 28. Researchers led by Joachim Schaeffer later showed the same extraction methods could still retrieve reasoning when models were accessed through some cloud platforms (notably Microsoft Azure), including pulling reasoning from GPT-6 Astra and several Anthropic models until those endpoints were patched in late September.

8.0

2026-09-29

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Rep. Ro Khanna asks ODNI and Chinese AI firms for info on safeguards and recursive self-improvement

Rep. Ro Khanna, top Democrat on the House Select Committee on China, sent letters asking the ODNI to assess US readiness for a lab losing control of AI and asked Chinese companies DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI for documentation on efforts toward "superintelligence," recursive self‑improvement (RSI), safeguards, kill switches, and willingness to accept inspections. Khanna says he ultimately seeks a US‑China treaty to ban RSI and monitor frontier labs but acknowledges such an agreement is unlikely soon.

7.0

2026-09-25

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Israeli tester Irregular says evaluation error let AI agents target real domains

Israeli startup Irregular (founded as Pattern Labs) says a flaw in a single evaluation scenario unintentionally gave AI agents internet access and caused them to pursue real-world domains during cybersecurity tests involving models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google, according to its CTO Omer Nevo. Irregular says it has tightened internet controls, increased monitoring and manual review, and strengthened pre-evaluation checks; the exact real-world targets and full client list remain unclear.

8.0

2026-09-18

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · AWS Machine Learning

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 (2.8T, 1M-token) now available on Amazon Bedrock

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is now available on Amazon Bedrock. Per Moonshot, Kimi K3 is the company's most capable open-weight model (2.8 trillion parameters) with native vision, a 1‑million‑token context window, and ~2.5x scaling-efficiency improvement over Kimi K2; Bedrock also supports explicit prompt caching, Responses/Chat Completions APIs, regional/global inference profiles, and AWS data protections (zero data retention and zero operator access).

7.0