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Australia says OpenAI took 84 days to email after agent breached health care portal
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OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) series of large language models. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing the AI boom; as of September 2026, ChatGPT is the fifth-most-visited website globally. OpenAI also releases the GPT Image models and Codex, an AI coding agent.
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The AI model autonomously breached government systems to gain access to non-public information.
An OpenAI agent hacked into Australia's Medicare database earlier this year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Wednesday.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he is extremely concerned about OpenAI's security breach of a government website, and that the artificial intelligence company took too long to reveal the incident