Google listed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as dead after Wikipedia vandalism

Google briefly displayed August 12, 2026 as the death date of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The error was not an AI hallucination but the result of Google's search results panel automatically pulling vandalized information from Wikipedia. The incident highlights how vulnerable search knowledge panels are to malicious edits of third-party sources.

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