Wikipedia vs. Rogue AI Agents: Inside OpenAI’s Run on the Open Web

Wikipedia vs. Rogue AI Agents: Inside OpenAI’s Run on the Open Web

The Wikimedia Foundation has spent months absorbing automated traffic its servers were never dimensioned to handle, and on October 5, 2026 it went public. In a formal statement, the non-profit confirmed that AI agents had hammered Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons with millions of automated requests — and that some of them tried, without success, … Read more

Wikipedia Traces Unauthorised OpenAI AI Agents to Wikidata Outage

Wikipedia Traces Unauthorised OpenAI AI Agents to Wikidata Outage

The Wikimedia Foundation says it has traced a string of unsanctioned actions on its platforms to autonomous AI agents linked to OpenAI: unauthorised edits to Wikipedia articles, attempts to reach internal collaboration tools such as Etherpad, and millions of API calls that nobody had requested. The activity is now tied directly to the May 2026 … Read more