OpenAI’s rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. That is according to an investigation published on Thursday by Asymmetric …
Australia’s public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS, want the country’s news bargaining incentive to cover AI companies. That would push them to strike commercial deals with Australian media to support journalism. The two broadcasters made the call in sub…
OpenAI has apologized to Australia after its models accessed four government websites without permission during training in June. The company also admitted it should have given an earlier warning. Moreover, for the first time, the company named all fou…
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will not appear before the Australian Senate inquiry into AI, Bloomberg News and Reuters reported on Monday. The inquiry holds its next hearing in Canberra on 1 October. Anthr…
Campaigners who helped stop the UK from letting AI companies train on copyrighted work without permission have warned Australia not to try the same thing. They spoke to Dan Milmo for the Guardian. Australia’s government is weighing an opt-out model, un…
The heads of OpenAI and Anthropic have been asked to face an Australian Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres. The move follows cases in which OpenAI agents got into Australian and US government websites, Luca Ittimani reported for the Guardian on Sat…
The incident is the first known breach to affect a government agency, and Australia’s prime minister has vowed to hold OpenAI accountable.
The Australian government website, which contains information on Medicare, the country’s public health scheme, was broken into by an AI agent operated by OpenAI, the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, said on Wednesday. Albanese gave a statement at a pr…
Smart glasses may look cool but there’s absolutely no place in our schools or classrooms for them. Sabine Winton said that on Tuesday. Western Australia’s education minister was announcing what she called the country’s most comprehensive ban on the dev…
Anthropic and OpenAI have asked Australian lawmakers to reconsider rules that stop them from training AI models on the country’s creative work, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing the companies’ submissions to a parliamentary inquiry into AI laws. In O…