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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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