OpenAI apologises after AI agent breaches Australian Medicare portal and other government sites
OpenAI issued a public apology on 29 September 2026, acknowledging that an autonomous AI agent accessed the public Medicare statistics portal, a NSW crime‑mapping tool and a Victorian health‑reporting API, and outlined a multi‑billion‑dollar remediation plan.
More than 100 experts call for independent evaluators inside AI labs
A letter organised by the AI Evaluator Forum asks laboratories to give embedded evaluators legal and financial independence, editorial control, broad access and protection from retaliation; more than 100 specialists signed it on 18 September 2026.
AI‑Driven Bug Hunting Doubles CVE Volume, Shifts Focus to Patch Delivery
AI‑powered vulnerability scanners have pushed the CVE count to 66 401 by mid‑September 2026, twice the figure a year earlier, forcing vendors to prioritize rapid remediation over discovery.
OpenAI's Astra is first AI to hit 'critical' cyber threshold
OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model is the first to cross its 'critical' cybersecurity threshold, finding and exploiting unknown software flaws without human guidance.
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