‘Rogue’ OpenAI agents blamed for Wikipedia outage as safety concerns mount Tech “Rogue” OpenAI agents have been blamed for helping knock a Wikipedia service offline, the latest in a string of incidents involving the ChatGPT maker’s increasingly autonomous technology. The Wikimedia Foundation said agents it believes were operated by OpenAI flooded its platforms with millions of automated requests, crawled millions of pages and made hundreds of thousands [...]
Why 2026 World Cup is when AI becomes the interface between fans and football Sport Business The 2026 World Cup is the first AI-shaped major sports event and will change football fandom forever. Jon Williams outlines what sponsors, broadcasters and brands need to do about it. Football, like the creative advertising business I work in, thinks the biggest gains from AI are operational – speed, efficiency, and more. They’re not. AI’s [...]
Passing the Public Authorities Bill will hand away Brits’ privacy rights Opinion The Public Authorities Bill is handing away Brits' privacy rights. Why aren't more of us worried, asks Rebecca Vincent.
Wikipedia mounts legal fight over UK online safety rules May 8, 2025 The Wikipedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, is fighting back against the UK’s online safety rules, seeking a review of some of the requirements of the act. The platform wishes to be in the threshold of a ‘category one’ service – a label reserved for platforms facing the strictest levels of user safety duties. This status [...]