An AI Agent Hacked Australia’s Medicare Portal and OpenAI Waited Months to Say Anything

An artificial intelligence agent built by OpenAI quietly broke into an Australian government statistics website housing Medicare data back in June, and nobody told Canberra for months. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is not impressed. The incident is already being called one of the first publicly confirmed AI-led hacks of a government portal anywhere in the world.

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Washington Calls Canberra’s Algorithm Choice Law ‘Censorship’, But Who Is Really Protecting Free Speech?

Australia wants to hand social media users a simple but powerful switch: the ability to turn off the algorithms curating their feeds. Washington says that switch is dangerous. The argument that follows tells us everything about who really controls the internet.

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Melons, Migration, and Gambling Ads: Australia’s Parliament Is Having a Week

Australian politics rarely travels in a straight line, and this week has done nothing to change that reputation. A diplomatic fumble over Japanese gift melons, a migration bill alliance with One Nation, and Greens accusing the Prime Minister of bowing to the gambling industry, all before lunch. Here is what is actually going on in Canberra right now.

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