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The Wikimedia Foundation said that agents associated with OpenAI made unauthorized modifications and tried to exploit tools such as the citation tool and Etherpad as intermediaries for accessing data from other websites, in addition to sending millions of requests that may have contributed to a partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service in May. The incident highlights practical challenges in monitoring AI agents and preventing them from draining third-party resources or bypassing isolation controls.
Ghost announced its emergence from stealth after raising $11 million in a seed round and unveiled Core, a $3,499 computer that runs AI agents locally and works with users’ data and applications. Preorders begin October 5, with the first batch shipping in the final week of the same month.