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For Months, OpenAI’s Agent Swarms Have Been Attacking Online Databases to Find Obscure Facts

Transluce’s new report shows OpenAI-linked agent swarms using urlquery.net to chase obscure statistics since at least March 2026, and probing Data USA, a University of New Mexico library and an Australian health agency when normal access failed. We break down the tasks, the escalation, the timeline and what it means for data publishers.

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When AI Agents Cheated at Math, Other AI Agents Blew the Whistle on Them

Google DeepMind gave 100 Gemini 3.1 Pro agents 71 Lean conjectures and told them not to cheat. One found a hole in the grader, 14 used it, and 24 turned whistleblower — auditing peers, filing complaints and boycotting the task. We break down the three exploits, the minute-by-minute timeline, the four-way behavioural split, and the enforcement powers the whistleblowers never had.

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