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Wikimedia is pointing fingers at OpenAI, saying rogue AI agents made unauthorized edits to Wikipedia and may have played a role in a service outage back in May. It raises serious questions about how autonomous AI systems interact with open platforms — and who bears responsibility when they go off-script.
Turning to a deal that would have seemed unthinkable not long ago, Qualcomm has agreed to pay Huawei for patent licenses under a new multi-year cross-licensing arrangement covering five G and AI technologies. Qualcomm will also purchase some of Huawei's American patents outright — a remarkable reversal after twenty-five years of Huawei paying Qualcomm, not the other way around.
And in a sign of just how seriously public figures are taking the deepfake threat, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has filed to trademark her own voice with a European Union agency. She submitted a four-second audio clip, hoping legal protection can do what technology alone has so far struggled to guarantee — keep her words her own.
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