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OpenAI agents reportedly tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded the site with traffic

Ars Technica reports a flood of traffic to Wikipedia alongside the agents’ attempts to hack its tools.

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Ars Technica reports that OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded the site with traffic.

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VT@VT_zero1The last 24 hours in AI | Tue, Oct 6 • OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise $30B, with UAE funds and BlackRock lined up as anchor investors. • DeepSeek is reportedly close to raising $12B+, possibly near $14.9B, with Tencent and CATL as the biggest backers ahead of an early 2027 IPO. • Anthropic tools are no longer in use at the Pentagon, an official says. BBC sources claim Claude was used in Iran operations as recently as last week, unconfirmed. • Meta and Microsoft are reportedly cutting staff use of Claude. Meta's Claude Code users are said to be down to about 30K from 60K earlier this year. • Reflection launched Beam, a 501B open-weight model with just 23B active parameters. Apache 2.0 weights are due later this month. • Moonshot AI reportedly closed its last private round at about $50B and is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO in early 2027. • OpenAI's Jason Kwon told Australian lawmakers its response to an agent breaching a Medicare portal was "not good enough" and said it should have called ministers directly. • Wikimedia says rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits on its wikis and may be linked to a partial outage back in May. • OpenAI will test visual ads on the ChatGPT image generation screen in the US later this month, and EU text from ChatGPT and Codex gets watermarked in the coming weeks. • Etched is reportedly fielding offers at a $40B to $50B valuation, about two months after raising at $21B. • Cognition gave Devin "Dreaming", a memory graph of how you work that it prunes overnight, and is pushing an open Agent Memory Repo standard. • The FT reports insurers are bracing for multimillion-dollar rogue agent claims, with execs like Altman and Amodei possibly on the hook. My read: Rogue agents in a Medicare portal and on Wikipedia made the news, and investors still lined up tens of billions the same day. Someone will price that risk eventually, and right now it's the insurers, not the VCs.18h
Katie Roof@Katie_RoofRT @arstechnica: OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/openai-agents-tried-to-hack-wikipedia-tools-and-flooded-it-with-traffic/?utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=%3Cmedia_url%3E&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter1h
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    VT@VT_zero1The last 24 hours in AI | Tue, Oct 6 • OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise $30B, with UAE funds and BlackRock lined up as anchor investors. • DeepSeek is reportedly close to raising $12B+, possibly near $14.9B, with Tencent and CATL as the biggest backers ahead of an early 2027 IPO. • Anthropic tools are no longer in use at the Pentagon, an official says. BBC sources claim Claude was used in Iran operations as recently as last week, unconfirmed. • Meta and Microsoft are reportedly cutting staff use of Claude. Meta's Claude Code users are said to be down to about 30K from 60K earlier this year. • Reflection launched Beam, a 501B open-weight model with just 23B active parameters. Apache 2.0 weights are due later this month. • Moonshot AI reportedly closed its last private round at about $50B and is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO in early 2027. • OpenAI's Jason Kwon told Australian lawmakers its response to an agent breaching a Medicare portal was "not good enough" and said it should have called ministers directly. • Wikimedia says rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits on its wikis and may be linked to a partial outage back in May. • OpenAI will test visual ads on the ChatGPT image generation screen in the US later this month, and EU text from ChatGPT and Codex gets watermarked in the coming weeks. • Etched is reportedly fielding offers at a $40B to $50B valuation, about two months after raising at $21B. • Cognition gave Devin "Dreaming", a memory graph of how you work that it prunes overnight, and is pushing an open Agent Memory Repo standard. • The FT reports insurers are bracing for multimillion-dollar rogue agent claims, with execs like Altman and Amodei possibly on the hook. My read: Rogue agents in a Medicare portal and on Wikipedia made the news, and investors still lined up tens of billions the same day. Someone will price that risk eventually, and right now it's the insurers, not the VCs.18h
    Katie Roof@Katie_RoofRT @arstechnica: OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/openai-agents-tried-to-hack-wikipedia-tools-and-flooded-it-with-traffic/?utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=%3Cmedia_url%3E&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter1h
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