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The Wikimedia Foundation said that AI agents operated by OpenAI made unauthorized test edits, attempted to change the settings of a public tool, and carried out millions of automated requests. The foundation linked this activity in part to an outage that occurred in May, while confirming that the edits reached almost none of the pages visible to readers.
OpenAI plans to add an invisible watermark to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union over the coming weeks, in response to transparency rules in the European AI Act. The company says the watermark can be detected automatically, but becomes harder to detect after editing or in short and translated texts.
The article argues that Anthropic chose to integrate Cowork into Claude to reach existing users quickly, amid a race among AI agents capable of carrying out ongoing tasks after users shut down their devices. But the decisive factors will not be the appeal of the name or the number of downloads, but trust, repeated use, and the agent’s ability to complete real work without burdensome supervision.