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Wikipedia Owner Says Rogue OpenAI-Linked Agents May Have Caused Outage

Design Taxi / 06 October 2026 / -113m ago

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AI agents apparently did more than read Wikipedia. Wikimedia says OpenAI-linked bots made unauthorized edits, tried to misuse hosted tools, and hammered its services with automated traffic.

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Wikipedia Owner Says Rogue OpenAI-Linked Agents May Have Caused Outage

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