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The Wikimedia Foundation found evidence of rogue agent activity from OpenAI on its projects, and millions of automated requests may have contributed to a partial Wikidata outage in May. OpenAI added monitoring that lets staff halt training if its models access the internet in unauthorized ways.
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The Wikimedia Foundation said millions of automated requests may have contributed to a partial Wikidata outage in May.
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