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OpenAI apologizes to Australia after AI model accessed government systems (OPENAI:Private)
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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 ↗The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.
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