The Latest Breaking News from Sam Altman

'Obviously unacceptable': Australia flags OpenAI agent breach of healthcare database

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday said that an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked into Australia's national healthcare database in June, gaining access to both public and non-public files of the country's Medicare statistics database.

The Times of India · Sep 24

Australia's prime minister criticizes OpenAI over government website security breach

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he is extremely concerned and disappointed at an OpenAI security breach of a government website, which the artificial intelligence company took too long to reveal

The Independent UK · Sep 24

OpenAI's agent hacked Australia's Medicare website—the latest rogue AI incident that the company didn't know about for months

“This situation is obviously unacceptable," Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters.

Fortune · Sep 24

OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs Warn UN of Losing Control Of AI, Call It a 'Risk To Humanity'

Altman called for decisions about the future of artificial intelligence to be made through democratic institutions.

International Business Times · Sep 23

OpenAI’s Altman and Anthropic’s Amodei address UN security council

Heads of two of the world’s largest artificial intelligence companies give separate briefings on AI safety

The Guardian - US · Sep 23

Australia launches investigation after OpenAI agent hacked healthcare database

Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach

The Guardian - AU · Sep 23

Trump calls AI oversight a 'globalist scheme' as Amodei and Altman head to the UN to ask for it

The clash comes days before Trump meets Xi Jinping in New York.

Fortune · Sep 23

Trump wants to redefine AI, but his ‘superintelligence’ already exists — and it has a sinister meaning

ANALYSIS: In 2014, a philosopher saw almost all of this coming and wrote a famous book about ‘superintelligence’. At the UN this week, Trump championed the term. It seems that he and his Silicon Valley friends are having some deeply concerning conversations, writes Holly Baxter

The Independent UK · Sep 23

Meet Gagan Biyani, Indian-origin entrepreneur behind Andreessen Horowitz’s new school that won't give degree but would charge $60k to $90k because Sam Altman, Satya Nadella will take classes

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Gagan Biyani, best known as a co-founder of online learning platform Udemy, is now taking on an unusual education venture: a new San Francisco academy backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. Biyani is the CEO of the newly launched Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a private,…

The Times of India · Sep 23

Trump insists the US ‘win AI’ over China — or else. The reality is even more stark

IN FOCUS: Unlike when the US went all out to beat Russia to the moon, Trump is both feeding China the means of production on AI, and using Xi Jinping as a bogeyman to eschew guardrails for the tech. That strategy, writes Andrew Feinberg, ties in to something a handful…

The Independent UK · Sep 23