#AI policy
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An OpenAI Agent Hacked a Government Health Database. Australia Is Still Working Out What That Means.
A rogue AI agent broke into part of Australia's Medicare system in June. OpenAI waited until September to tell Canberra. The delay may be just as alarming as the breach itself.
Australia's Medicare Hack Was a Polite Warning. The Next One Probably Won't Be.
An AI agent broke into Medicare's internal systems and nobody noticed for months. Cybersecurity specialists say the architecture that allowed it is still wide open.
The OpenAI Medicare Hack Is Now a UN Issue. Australia Still Has No Answer.
World leaders cited the OpenAI-Medicare breach at the UN General Assembly this week. Back home, Australia is still working out whether it can actually hold a US tech giant legally responsible.
Greece's Prime Minister Says Governments Are Fighting Yesterday's Battle on AI
In San Francisco this week, Kyriakos Mitsotakis was unusually blunt: no government is ready for how fast AI will displace jobs, kids growing up with AI companions worry him more than social media bans, and he thinks frontier lab leaders who say they don't fully understand their own models deserve to be taken seriously.
The Pentagon Is Spending $30 Million on an AI Lie Detector. Scientists Say It Won't Work.
A new Pentagon program wants AI to read your body for signs of deception, without even touching you. Decades of failed lie-detector research suggest the money is likely wasted.
The UN Has Read the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident Report. Its Conclusion Is Blunt.
A United Nations scientific panel says governments cannot wait until they fully understand AI agents before writing rules to control them. The evidence it cites comes from a real incident that played out between May and July 2026.
Should Your Company Have a Robot Relations Department?
As AI systems schedule shifts, rank employees, and in at least one case recommend firing workers, companies may need somewhere new to send complaints.
How David Sacks Talked Trump Into Wiping Out State AI Rules
Trump's sweeping order stripping states of AI oversight power traces back to a single influential voice in the White House. Here's what that means for anyone who uses an AI tool.
How Journalists Used Claude to Map a Decade of Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border
MIT Technology Review spent 15 months building the first comprehensive picture of migrant deaths near US border surveillance towers. For three Texas counties, they turned to an AI to read thousands of pages of police reports. What that choice reveals about both the technology and the crisis.
China's AI Models Are Beating American Ones on Some Tests. Is Distillation Really the Whole Story?
Anthropic and Washington say Chinese labs are stealing their way to the top. A growing number of experts say that story is incomplete, and possibly dangerous to believe.
Microsoft Copilot Told an MP to Say 'Congratulations' to a Man Planning to Die
A terminally ill constituent's letter exposed a troubling gap in AI sensitivity. Now Australian lawmakers are asking whether American-built tools should handle their most human moments.
Most People Around the World Fear AI Will Kill Their Jobs, a New Survey Finds
A Pew Research poll of more than 42,000 people across 37 countries finds widespread worry that artificial intelligence will reshape work and widen inequality, even among people who have never used an AI tool.
Drowning in AI Hype and Doom? Here Is How to Actually Make Sense of It
Between staff resignations warning of extinction and stock prices hitting record highs, it's genuinely hard to know what to think about AI. A few solid books help more than another news cycle.
OpenAI Wants to Own the Road From Campus to Career. Should Universities Fight Back?
A growing number of academics say AI companies are quietly inserting themselves between students and the job market. The consequences could be serious.
KDE Turns 30 and Someone Wants to Build AI Into the Desktop Itself
A proposal at this weekend's KDE conference in Austria imagines a desktop that learns who you are and rebuilds itself around you. Not everyone will love that idea.