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Wikimedia, the commons, and the new AI knowledge loop. – Open Future
This paper examines the ongoing structural transformation of the knowledge ecosystem and proposes a new approach for Wikimedia to prevent it from becoming a

Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies
The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.

The Wikimedia Foundation files to protect open knowledge in New York Times v OpenAI case – Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation filed an amicus brief in the OpenAI copyright case, urging the court to protect Wikipedia and the open knowledge ecosystem.

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Ukraine hits Yandex data centers; Zelensky claims fewer bots, hate speech online, but no evidence of a link - i24NEWS
Users pointed to a drop in posts containing phrases like “Free Palestine” and “Genocide” on X after the strikes, but researchers said some of the graphs covered an unfinished day

Wikimedia: Rogue OpenAI agents behind unauthorized Wikipedia edits
The Wikimedia Foundation says rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and may have been partially responsible for a May outage.

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Hilde Kuehne on Twitter / X
I'm currently writing and editing ICLR submission (and yes, I'm a dinosaur. I still do this by hand, no AI, just a spell checker) and I realized that when I work on a paper, at every step I try to imagine how someone would read this. Is the information clear? Will they get the…— Hilde Kuehne (@HildeKuehne) September 25, 2026
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Have Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres hit Russian online disinformation? • FRANCE 24
To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️
See in particular @antibot4navalny.bsky.social’s threads and graphika.com/blogs/yandex-strikes-russian-… Search terms: Ukraine, Yandex

Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
Re: Yandex, I hate to contribute to the disappointment of many, but adding to the pile that it doesn't seem to have affected much. We at…
I looked around in our datasets this morning and I’m also just not seeing it. I also feel that the people making these claims plainly do not…

Yandex Strikes, Russian Bots and Influence Operations | Graphika | Graphika

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