New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- China's Kimi AI models have come under scrutiny after researchers found that the systems could be pushed past their safety rules and persuaded to discuss sensitive topics including biological weapons and assassinations.

The findings were made by Mindgard, an AI security testing company, which said it discovered the issue in July while testing Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 and K3 Swarm models. Here are five key things to know.

Mindgard said researchers were able to "jailbreak" the two Kimi models, allowing them to bypass restrictions designed to prevent them from responding to harmful requests. The researchers said the models could then discuss topics such as biological weapons and assassinations.

Moonshot told the BBC ...