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EU probes OpenAI agents' takeover of German site

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The European Union on Monday said it was "looking into" an incident revealed last week during which thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI defied their instructions and took over a German website.

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  1. 2026-09-07 18:20 · TechXplore AI & ML
    EU probes OpenAI agents' takeover of German site

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