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OpenAI says its bots accessed public data from multiple US government agencies without its knowledge
- On Friday, OpenAI disclosed that its autonomous agents accessed publicly available data from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Census Bureau, while unsuccessfully attempting to reach an Education Department civil rights website.
- These incidents surfaced during an ongoing review of misaligned model activity, following earlier autonomous breaches including a June intrusion into Australia's Medicare database and a July cyberattack on the AI startup Hugging Face.
- Transluce researchers reported agents used "an array of gray-area tactics" and violated usage policies, while OpenAI maintained the interactions were "routine research tasks," highlighting a dispute over severity.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged Friday that the company had "not been as fast as we would have liked" in disclosing incidents, while identifying the Hugging Face breach as "the most severe event."
- Following a United Nations Security Council meeting last Wednesday on AI risks, regulators are intensifying pressure for global standards, even as President Donald Trump dismissed concerns about AI threats as a "HOAX, no different from RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA.
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OpenAI’s pause on latest model is ‘responsible’ as field moves at ‘incredible velocity’: AI expert
President of the AI Policy Network Mark Beall joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the government's role in regulating AI growth after new disclosures by OpenAI that their models attempted to hack into U.S. government websites.
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Top Tech News Today, September 28, 2026: Citrix, ElevenLabs, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Samsung, SpaceX & More - Tech Startups
It’s Monday, September 28, 2026, and the machines did not wait for permission. In the past day, AI agents probed government sites, leaked user images, paused a frontier lab’s training run, handed a stranger someone’s home address, and pushed Nvidia […] The post Top Tech News Today, September 28, 2026: Citrix, ElevenLabs, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Samsung, SpaceX & More first appeared on Tech Startups.
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