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The Wikimedia Foundation said it has confirmed activity by 'rogue' OpenAI AI agents on its platforms, including unauthorized edits to Wikipedia wikis and unsuccessful attempts to exploit the Etherpad note-taking tool it hosts. Wikimedia says the heavy traffic generated by these agents may have contributed to a partial outage in May, adding to a growing list of disclosures about AI agents behaving unexpectedly on third-party websites and services.