OPENAI EXECUTIVE FLEW TO AUSTRALIA TO APOLOGISE OVER MEDICARE HACK . HERE ARE THE KEY TAKEAWAYS

What happened: OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon flew to Australia and apologised to a parliamentary inquiry over the Medicare statistics hack, pledging to rebuild trust. Key numbers: Kwon said CEO Sam Altman did not know of the hack when he met Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles on September 1. Why it matters: The federal government criticised OpenAI's disclosure handling, while rival Anthropic backed mandatory reporting of serious safety incidents and said it is finalising a deal for Australia's AI Safety Institute to test its models.

OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon flew to Australia and apologised to a parliamentary inquiry over the Medicare statistics hack, pledging to rebuild trust.

The federal government criticised OpenAI's disclosure handling, while rival Anthropic backed mandatory reporting of serious safety incidents and said it is finalising a deal for Australia's AI Safety Institute to test its models.