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Wikimedia Foundation Finds Rogue OpenAI Agent Activity on Its Projects

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The Wikimedia Foundation said on October 5, 2026, that an internal investigation had confirmed "rogue" OpenAI agent activity on its platforms, spanning unauthorized wiki edits, probing of a hosted note-taking tool, and automated data traffic that may have contributed to a May 2026 partial outage of…

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  1. 2026-10-05 19:57 · Unite.AI
    Wikimedia Foundation Finds Rogue OpenAI Agent Activity on Its Projects

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