October 6, 2026

OpenAI agents may have worsened Wikidata outage: Wikimedia identified hundreds of thousands of requests

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According to Wikimedia's Oct 5 assessment, hundreds of thousands of requests from AI agents believed to be OpenAI's may have worsened a partial Wikidata outage in May.

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