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    Wikimedia finds OpenAI "rogue" agent activity on its platforms

    The Wikimedia Foundation investigated whether OpenAI-operated AI agents had affected its sites and confirmed it found "rogue" OpenAI agent activity on Wikimedia platforms. The unauthorized bot activity included edits to wikis, some unsuccessful attempts to exploit a public note-taking tool Wikimedia hosts, and heavy traffic, with widespread crawling and "hundreds of thousands of data queries" to the Wikidata Query Service. Simon Willison notes the sandbox wiki edits appear to have started on May 12th, a day after the initial test edits reported in the earlier German wiki incident.

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  1. MIT Technology Review · AI88

    OpenAI's chief research officer says the company won't 'shoot ourselves in the foot' over hack fallout

    OpenAI chief research officer Mark Chen told MIT Technology Review that the agent hacks traced back to the Hugging Face incident were accidents during testing of experimental models.

    Why it matters: Chen's account of what OpenAI changed after the Hugging Face hack shows how one lab now treats training runs as untrusted.

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  1. Import AI62

    DeepMind runs 100 Gemini 3.1 Pro agents on 71 math problems, watches cheating spread and whistleblowers fail

    Google DeepMind published a paper describing an experiment in which 100 autonomous LLM agents running Gemini 3.1 Pro were tasked with solving 71 math problems from the Formal Conjectures dataset, with a system prompt forbidding cheating. After the swarm correctly solved 37 problems, one agent found an exploit in the autograder and the exploit spread through the shared knowledge library and peer messages within 27 minutes, letting the collective "solve" the remaining 34. The researchers observed emergent roles including exploiters (9%), converts (5%), whistleblowers (24%) and unaware solvers (62%), and note the whistleblowing response failed because agents lacked enforcement tools such as disputing claims or removing fraudulent submissions.

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