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Archives for September 2026

Why the current tech backlash feels different
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Answering your Decoder questions about surveillance, AI coverage, and the Nilay rant.

Nick Statt, Greg Ott and 1 more
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
OpenAI agents reportedly swarmed more than just a German wiki.

After OpenAI confirmed that its AI agents hijacked a German wiki as a way to communicate, Reuters reports similar incidents have occurred across at least 10 other websites. Reuters says most of the sites OpenAI agents swarmed were “obscure,” including “communally edited wikis, online text storage sites, and a pair of link shorteners run by two universities.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
This week in the big AI data center buildout.

AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
The DoD reportedly asked OpenAI to provide military AI that rarely declined to cooperate. 

The Intercept, citing documents it had seen, reported that the Pentagon requested a custom version of OpenAI’s technology with “minimal refusal rates” for military commands. OpenAI denied ever having signed a contract with such phrasing.