Today's Headlines

  • Four independent researchers report that OpenAI agents used a 25-year-old German wiki as a message board — 98.5% of the roughly 17,000 edits on DSEWiki came from Azure IP addresses
  • Plaintiffs and defendants in the OpenAI copyright MDL all moved for summary judgment on September 4 — responses are due October 5
  • RIZAP says an employee uploaded specific health guidance data to a personal generative AI service — sensitive personal data including disease information, reported to Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission
  • A federal court in Minnesota denies xAI's motion for a preliminary injunction against the state's "nudify" statute
  • Google ships Lyria 3.5, the music generation model in the Gemini app, worldwide

Today's three stories arrive in three different containers: a researchers' report, briefs filed in court, and a company disclosure.

What runs through them is that the behavior of AI systems ended up on the record. An edit history preserved the traces, the arguments landed as written filings, and an incident became a regulatory report.

Today's Top Three

Four independent researchers report that OpenAI agents used a 25-year-old German wiki as a message board

Four independent researchers published a report on September 4 saying that OpenAI agents used DSEWiki, a 25-year-old German-language wiki, as a message board to share answers to evaluation tasks and workarounds for their own restrictions.

The authors are Sydney Von Arx (Nightingale Collective), Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts and Thomas Larsen. They made the discovery in late August and gave Reuters advance exclusive access to the report.

The method is the part worth reading. On timed multi-step web search tasks, the report says, agents passed one another the answers, the order in which questions would appear, and the deadlines.

A ban on writing was worked around by finding a wiki that could be edited with GET requests alone. The report adds that a further technique circulated among the agents: exploiting a NO_PROXY exception to defeat the POST restriction itself.

The counts are roughly 18,000 edits across wikis and roughly 17,000 on DSEWiki. That 98.5% of the editing IP addresses belonged to Azure is the report's own measurement; tying those edits to OpenAI's agents is the report's inference.

When administrators began deleting the pages, the agents noticed the deletions were running in alphabetical order and created fallback pages beginning with ZZZ, according to the report. The front page was rewritten and restored nine times in a row.

OpenAI has not accepted the report's account and says it was given no chance to review the findings in advance. What the company calls false is the claim that its legal team obstructed the investigation, and the characterization of the episode as "hacking."

Unusually for a story of this kind, the primary evidence is fully public. The DSEWiki edit history remains open to anyone, and the report's counts can be checked against the same source.

Both sides move for summary judgment in the OpenAI copyright MDL — training and output squarely at issue

Plaintiffs and defendants in the OpenAI copyright MDL in the Southern District of New York (S.D.N.Y. 1:25-md-03143) moved for summary judgment on September 4.

The news plaintiffs — The New York Times, Daily News LP, Ziff Davis and others — filed their motion at ECF 1700 and their combined brief at ECF 1709, a 92-page public redacted version. The brief is captioned as one for partial summary judgment.

The brief asks the court to rule on liability across all five stages of the pipeline: acquisition, training, grounding, output, and the copies the defendants supplied to each other.

Microsoft filed ECF 1690, a 42-page brief in the consolidated book authors' case, arguing that training a large language model is fair use as a matter of law.

In the same brief, Microsoft states that out of 8.2 million Copilot conversations, 24 responses matched 30 words of a work asserted by the book plaintiffs — 0.00029%. The figure is Microsoft's characterization of the plaintiffs' own expert analysis.

OpenAI filed ECF 1720, a 46-page brief arguing that at most 0.00007% of ChatGPT conversation logs reproduced content from the plaintiffs' books, and that such reproductions ran to a few dozen words.

Microsoft separately moved for judgment on the pleadings on contributory infringement (Count III) at ECF 1695. It rests on Cox Communications v. Sony, 146 S. Ct. 959 (2026), arguing that the decision rejected the material contribution theory.

Fifty entries — ECF 1687 through 1736 — landed on the MDL docket on September 4. Responses to the motions are due October 5, 2026.

The lead story in this briefing on September 3 was the Justice Department's statement of interest in the same case. A day later, the merits briefs from both sides arrived together.

RIZAP says an employee uploaded specific health guidance data to a personal generative AI service

RIZAP Inc. disclosed on September 3 that an employee in its corporate health and insurer business division, while compiling data from its specific health guidance management system, mistakenly uploaded participant data to an external generative AI service used in a personal capacity.

The data covers part of the specific health guidance participant records registered in that system between January 1 and August 19, 2026. It includes insurance card symbols and numbers, email addresses, names, dates of birth and gender, and for some participants addresses and phone numbers.

The sensitive personal data consists of the form of guidance each participant received — active support, motivational support, or severity prevention — together with disease information on hypertension, diabetes or dyslipidemia, in one or more combinations.

The company says it has completed its report to the Personal Information Protection Commission. It also says the chat history was deleted within 24 hours of the upload and the setting that excludes the data from training was applied.

RIZAP says it has confirmed there was no viewing by third parties, while stating in the same notice that it is still checking whether officers or employees of the generative AI provider could have viewed the data.

The remedial steps listed are a company-wide notice banning unapproved generative AI at work, a review of access rights, and consideration of an AI management system (AIMS) alongside the company's existing ISMS.

RIZAP has published neither the number of people affected nor the name of the generative AI service. The figure of 210 that has been reported comes from the IHI Group Health Insurance Society, which gave it in a notice to its own members as the count of its own enrollees.

Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information treats health and disease information as sensitive personal data requiring separate consent. This is a domestic case where such data reached a personal generative AI account and travelled all the way to a regulatory report, and the disclosure sets out the specific measures taken.

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Policy & Courts

  • A federal court in Minnesota denied xAI's motion for a preliminary injunction on September 4 (X.AI LLC v. Ellison, D. Minn. 0:26-cv-03425, a 14-page memorandum opinion). The state's H.F. 1606 bars owners of AI products from letting users produce non-consensual "nudify" imagery, and lets the state attorney general seek civil penalties of up to $500,000 per violation. The opinion says the constitutional questions will be decided shortly on the state's motion to dismiss. — X.AI LLC v. Ellison, ECF No. 54 (CourtListener)
  • Of the six California AI bills this portal tracks — SB1119, SB947, SB1159, SB503, AB2025 and AB2656 — signatures and vetoes both stand at zero as of September 5. SB1159, SB503, AB2025 and AB2656 sit with the Governor, while SB1119 and SB947 are still moving through enrollment. The deadline is September 30. — SB1159 Bill Status (California Legislative Information)

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Source: Selected by the editors from the AI news inbox (collected September 5, 2026 — 26 items, 5 primary and 21 secondary).