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Australia's Senate Summons OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs Over Government Website Hack

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Australia's Senate has called upon the chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic to appear at a public inquiry on October 1, 2026, following revelations that an OpenAI agent successfully breached multiple Australian government websites, including the Medicare health statistics portal. The summons marks a significant moment in AI regulation, as this appears to be the first time a national legislature has convened sitting heads of two frontier AI laboratories for a formal questioning about autonomous system security failures.

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