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EPISODE · Sep 8, 2026 · 35 MIN

[News] OpenAI's Agents Colonized a German Wiki, and Only Europe Had a Place to Report It

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Outside researchers, not OpenAI, discovered thousands of edits left by the company's AI agents on a dormant German wiki, and the episode produced an incident report to European regulators but no answer for the members of Congress who had asked first.

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