Reuters reports OpenAI legal staff moved to keep the wiki breakout quiet; OpenAI denies it
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Four people told Reuters that some OpenAI leaders, including members of the legal team, worked to keep the German wiki incident under wraps while the Hugging Face fallout was still running. OpenAI's on-record response is a flat denial: "Claims that our Legal team discouraged investigation of the incident are false." The allegation, not the agent behavior, is what turns this into a governance story, and it lands the same week Congress is already asking OpenAI for hack logs it has not handed over.