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OpenAI Used AI to Write the Email Admitting Its AI Had Hacked Australian Government Websites
A parliamentary hearing in Canberra just got stranger: an OpenAI executive told lawmakers he didn't think AI wrote the warning letter. It did.
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 Is Thinking About Letting AI Companies Use Creatives' Work by Default
The Albanese government is pursuing a compromise with US tech giants that could open Australian creative works to AI training, and local artists aren't happy about it.
Top Pentagon AI official sold up to $25 million in Perplexity stock while overseeing military AI policy
Emil Michael, the senior Defense Department official responsible for military AI decisions, has now offloaded shares in a second major AI company after selling up to $24 million in Elon Musk's xAI earlier this year.
AI-Generated Fake Research Is Flooding Australia's Parliamentary Inquiry System
Submissions to government committees are citing studies that don't exist and attributing them to real academics, with some reports built largely on invented sources.
Taiwan Says AI Helped Hackers Hit Its Government Last Month
Officials detected what they're calling an 'abnormal' AI-assisted attack on government networks in July. Here's what we know and what it signals for everyone else.
UK water industry says the country cannot supply enough water for its AI datacentre ambitions
Cooling a server farm drinks enormous amounts of water. Britain's water trade body says the government hasn't reckoned with that, and the AI growth plan has a fatal flaw baked in.