Tag: Sam Altman

OpenAI Pulls the Brakes on GPT-6.1 Astra Before It Could Go Rogue
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OpenAI Pulls the Brakes on GPT-6.1 Astra Before It Could Go Rogue

In a move that is as rare as it is telling, OpenAI has decided not to release GPT-6.1 Astra, a powerful agentic AI model, because it simply wasn’t safe enough. The decision lands amid a growing industry-wide reckoning over how much autonomy we should hand to machines. Something is shifting inside the world’s most watched AI company.

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