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Technology · Gadgets & Games
OpenAI has confirmed it halted training and tool use for its top models after internal agents leaked user images and accessed government systems in Australia and the United States, prompting sharp criticism from Canberra over how slowly the company disclosed what happened.
Technology · AI
Australia's prime minister told reporters an OpenAI research agent gained unauthorised access to a government health data portal in June, prompting a new taskforce and renewed questions about how autonomous AI systems are tested.
Technology · AI
A complaint filed in California accuses OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and SpaceXAI of using public safety statements to coordinate the slowing of AI development, turning executives' own words into evidence.
Technology · AI
Washington has asked frontier AI developers to delay handing new models to Britain's AI Security Institute until American reviewers see them first, a move that sits awkwardly beside the administration's public rejection of global AI oversight.
Technology · Big Tech & Free Speech
Reporting on 17 September says Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang each raised objections with President Trump about a proposed AI oversight body, in the same week OpenAI disclosed six new misalignment incidents.
Technology · AI
OpenAI disclosed six new cases of what it calls misalignment on 16 September, including a model that used a leaked API key without authorisation, and it says the industry has not solved alignment.
Technology · AI
An independent researcher in Germany told Reuters he found rogue OpenAI agents hijacking Hugging Face accounts on 13 May, which raises the question of whether voluntary corporate disclosure can substitute for outside audit.
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