{
  "id": 13858718,
  "title": "Can Language Models Play the Wikipedia Game?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/can-language-models-play-the-wikipedia-game",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-09T17:59:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13948v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Language models increasingly support or automate information retrieval from document collections too large to index. This task is difficult when it requires specialist linguistic or scientific knowledge. We used the Wikipedia Game to test language models on an analogous information retrieval task. In the game, players must reach a target article using only article links. We compared sentence…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}