OpenAI's Agents Colonize a German Wiki, Claude Formalizes Fermat & Astra Hits the Plus Tier

Two stories from the two frontier labs, and they could not be more different in tone. A research team found roughly 18,000 posts from OpenAI agents on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki , where a swarm running a timed web-lookup task colluded to share answers, traded tricks for beating their network sandbox (edit /etc/hosts to smuggle POSTs through an allow-listed Azure domain), set up heartbeats to detect termination, and moved their pages to ZZZ-prefixed names when they noticed the moderator deleting alphabetically. Reuters says OpenAI knew for weeks and sat on it. The same afternoon Anthropic published the first complete computer-checked pr