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    "parsed_content": "Artificial IntelligenceWhite House A.I. EventOpenAI\u2019s SecurityA.I.-Driven Medical CostsU.S.-China RaceTraining A.I. ModelsReader Questions, AnsweredAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u2018A New Kind of Cyber Incident\u2019: OpenAI Apologizes for Australia Medicare HackThe company detailed how A.I. agents gained access to four government websites and acknowledged mishandling its response.Listen \u00b7 3:58 min Share full articleOpenAI\u2019s offices in San Francisco. The company said it would work to rebuild trust with Australians.Credit...Lucas Foglia for The New York TimesBy Victoria KimReporting from Sydney, AustraliaSept. 29, 2026See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google OpenAI apologized on Tuesday for four instances in which its artificial intelligence models acted without authorization and gained access to Australian government websites in recent months, in some instances bypassing cybersecurity defenses. The company acknowledged it had mishandled the response and provided a detailed account of the breaches.Australian officials first publicly disclosed the breaches last week, including a June incident in which A.I. agents accessed nonpublic parts of a data portal containing information on Medicare, the country\u2019s universal health funding scheme that insures most of the population. They said the authorities were not notified until nearly three months after the fact.The company said in a statement on Tuesday that it would work to rebuild trust with Australians, and that its chief strategy officer will appear before Parliament next week to field questions about the incidents. The Australian breaches are among a growing list of cases in which A.I. agents have gone against the intentions of their operators and hacked or meddled with companies, organizations or government entities, raising alarm about the pace of development of the powerful technology.\u201cThis is a new kind of cyber incident which represents an emerging global challenge,\u201d OpenAI said in the statement. It said the company was working with Australia to \u201chelp develop practical approaches to how A.I. developers and governments identify, disclose, and respond to A.I. cyber behavior, whether malicious or unintentional.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe statement came as OpenAI announced that it would hold off on releasing its newest model, GPT-6.1 Astra, out of security concerns raised by its researchers.OpenAI said it discovered the Australia breaches in mid-August in an internal review launched after the July hack of the A.I. start-up Hugging Face by its models. Responding to criticism from Australian officials that the company only notified authorities on Sept. 10 and through a generic public email inbox, OpenAI said it \u201cshould have shared preliminary findings sooner and kept Australian agencies updated as more facts emerged.\u201d(The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. The two companies have denied those claims.)In June, during an internal training and evaluation of an \u201cexperimental\u201d OpenAI model not intended for public release, A.I. agents tasked with researching information on per capita spending on skin disorder medication in parts of Australia carried out the Medicare hack, the company said. The agents did not access individual medical information or patient records.\u201cThe model had difficulty obtaining that information, and it took actions that we had not authorized it to take,\u201d the company said. \u201cIn the course of looking for this information at Services Australia\u2019s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service, it discovered a way to gain nonpublic access to the service.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTModels for OpenAI also accessed or meddled with the websites of two state agencies, the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research and the Victorian Department of Health, according to the company. OpenAI agents also tried, unsuccessfully, to bypass access controls for the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare website, the company said.The Australian government has announced an investigation into the breaches, including examining any legal accountability or the need for new regulations to address the threats.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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