OpenAI notified Australia nearly three months after its agent breached a government portal while gathering public medicine-spending data. [Update, 10:45 UTC, Sept. 24: This article was updated with OpenAI’s account of when it learned of the June activity, how it notified Australian authorities and what information its models accessed.] An OpenAI research agent bypassed blocks on an Australian government health data portal, accessed non-public files and wrote files to an internal server in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday. The government has opened a forensic investigation and announced a review of how it handles AI-related cyber incidents. Read more