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Fremantle2026 September 6 (Sunday), 9:08AM· AI · wikis · From Reuters: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring, by Deepa Seetharaman and Raphael Satter, 4 September 2026: The AI agent breakout in Germany was detailed in a report shared ​exclusively with Reuters, opens new tab by a group of researchers including Sydney Von Arx, CEO of AI safety nonprofit Nightingale, and Cormac Slade Byrd, a quantitative trader-turned AI researcher. They uncovered the activity in late August while scouring ​the internet for signs of unauthorized AI-agent behavior, they told Reuters. The pair said they found more than 15,000 edits carried out by AI agents on a German-language wiki site, DseWiki, that is geared toward programmers and accepts communal edits along ‌the lines of ⁠Wikipedia. This new phrasing that seems to be taking hold is pretty annoying. AI doesn't "escape containment" or "break out", it's just a set of computer programmes running on…

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