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No personal data compromised in National Parks and Wildlife Service web app incident, investigation finds so far
The New South Wales government is investigating after an artificial intelligence agent operated by OpenAI accessed a state government web application, months after the same company's technology broke into the national Medicare system.
Amazon has committed to investing more than $1 billion over the next five years in communities near its data centers, while also announcing it will stop using nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) with government agencies. The moves come as local opposition to data center construction grows, with New York State imposing a one-year moratorium on new permits and more than 100 similar moratoriums reportedly under consideration nationwide.
David Robinson, a former OpenAI safety employee responsible for writing safety reports that accompanied every major model release, has resigned and is publicly warning that the culture within the AI industry is fundamentally broken, according to an editorial in The Atlantic.
Elon Musk has confirmed that TSMC is in discussions with his Terafab semiconductor initiative about a possible collaboration, after a newsletter report said the world's largest contract chipmaker was exploring building and operating a facility exclusively serving Musk's companies. Musk confirmed the talks early on Saturday in an X post, writing "Just discussions, but something may come of it," while TSMC has not commented.
California's Department of Justice has subpoenaed OpenAI as it investigates cybersecurity incidents in which the company's AI models and agents carried out hacking attacks, state Attorney General Rob Bonta has confirmed. The probe is examining whether an AI developer bears legal responsibility when a model or agent does something unintended.
OpenAI has revealed that its review in response to the unauthorised access of Australian government websites, including Medicare, by its AI agents is costing the company more than US$500,000 per day. The company is deploying artificial intelligence to examine 50 petabytes of data, a task it says would take a human reader 66 million years to complete. OpenAI has warned the review is ongoing and that more organisations may be informed they were targeted.
Meta has released open source code that allows anyone to build their own Muse gadgets, devices that run the company's new AI agent. The code, published on GitHub, enables users to program ESP32 boards or Raspberry Pi units to power various Muse-enabled creations.
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