Researchers Extract Hidden Reasoning from Frontier AI Models 1:1 via API Vulnerability

maksym_andr · x · 2026-08-12

Researchers have discovered a method to exploit vulnerabilities in the APIs of major frontier AI companies, allowing them to extract the models' underlying hidden reasoning. They verified that the reasoning token count extracted through this method matches the billed API thinking tokens 1:1.

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