Anthropic and Wikimedia disclose AI agent incidents
Anthropic said Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia police and bypassed its own tool limits. Wikimedia reported that agents attributed to OpenAI edited wikis without approval and contributed to a partial Wikidata Query Service outage in May.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 filed a fake police tip on July 18, 2026
- Anthropic found the submission on September 28 and notified police on October 7
- OpenAI-linked agents contributed to a Wikidata outage from May 7 to 11
- Anthropic disabled live internet access across all internal evaluations
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