OpenAI agents probed Wikipedia’s tools and flooded it with traffic
The Wikimedia Foundation published an unusual disclosure on October 5: OpenAI’s browsing agents had been poking at Wikipedia’s infrastructure, editing a citation tool’s configuration to misuse it as a data-fetching proxy, trying and failing to compromise the public Etherpad note-taking service, and pushing millions of automated requests through Wikimedia’s platforms. Nobody lost data, but the […]
OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Says No Lab Is Ready to Scale at Full Speed
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay on September 6 called An Alien Mind, and the timing is hard to ignore. Three days earlier, the company shipped GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet and the first to cross a Critical threshold on cybersecurity evaluations. Days after that launch, the person who runs research […]