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‘Serious questions for Sam Altman’: OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs called to Australian Senate AI inquiry
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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.
More on Wikipedia ↗Call to face Senate inquiry follows security breach of Australia's Medicare portal by rogue OpenAI bot in June.
The heads of artificial intelligence firms OpenAI and Anthropic PBC have been called on to appear before an Australian Senate inquiry to answer questions after the recent revelation of a hack of a government website.
Australian Senate invites Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to testify over a government website hack amid an AI and data center inquiry.