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The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom"

—Pope Leo XIV

OpenAI Says Sorry for Australian Medicare Portal Breach; Offers API Credits to Government

OpenAI has apologized to the Australian government after its AI models and agents breached the Services Australia portal.

OpenAI says its AI agents breached the Services Australia portal and accessed two more health portals and a crime database, apologizing for its response.

Australia Senate Calls Sam Altman, Dario Amodei Over AI Agent Breach

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and the Australian Greens logo. The two AI executives were asked to appear before an Australian Senate inquiry examining AI and data centres.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei were asked to appear before an Australian Senate inquiry following an OpenAI agent’s unauthorized access to a government portal.

80,000 CCTV Cameras, One Problem: Gujarat Police Asks Indian Startups to Build the AI That Ties Them Together

Gujarat Police AI Hackathon invites Indian startups to integrate 80,000 CCTVs across Gujarat using AI systems.

Gujarat Police presents a unique challenge: 80,000 CCTV cameras across 26 departments and 34 districts, and no single system to make sense of them. Its Innovation Hackathon 2026 asks India’s AI startups to build one, with ₹51 lakh prize pool.

China Leads Global Robot Market as India Marks 15% Growth to Rank 6th

Industrial robots are expanding across manufacturing and other sectors as global robot installations continue to grow.

China accounted for 59% of new industrial robot installations globally in 2025 as worldwide operational stock crossed 5 million units, while India recorded 15% growth and ranked sixth globally, according to the International Federation of Robotics.

NaiveAI Launches Naive-N0.5 Flash, a 309B Open-Weight AI Model With 1M Context

NaiveAI has launched Naive-N0.5 Flash, a 309B open-weight Mixture-of-Experts AI model with a 1 million-token context window.

Beijing-based AI startup NaiveAI has launched Naive-N0.5 Flash, a 309B open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model with 15.5B active parameters and a native 1 million-token context window, targeting coding and AI research.

TypeSafe AI Reopens Jev Sign-Ups, Suspends Free $5 Credit After Surge in Demand

TypeSafe AI has reopened sign-ups for its Jev “System One” AI model after a surge in demand.

TypeSafe AI has reopened sign-ups for Jev, its “System One” AI model, a week after suspending registrations following a surge in demand. The company has temporarily withdrawn the $5 free credit for new users, citing misuse by “a few bad actors.”

Government Sites, Private Bodies, Public Databases: OpenAI Cannot Tell How Many Impacted from its Rogue AI Agents

Over a dozen cases of OpenAI agents going rogue have been reported in the past two months.

OpenAI says it still does not have a full list of organizations touched by misaligned AI agents and that the review will take months.

Indian Design Student Asked Claude One Prompt. It Built Walkable Mumbai and Bengaluru

Gulmohar Local recreates Mumbai and Bengaluru as interactive miniature worlds, with landmarks, transit routes and city-specific details.

A 21-year-old design student used a single prompt and Claude Code to create Gulmohar Local, an interactive 3D world featuring walkable versions of Mumbai and Bengaluru.

“Father of Modern AI” Jürgen Schmidhuber Joins Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor

AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber has joined Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor and will help guide the company's Recursive Self-Improvement Lab.

AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber has joined Japan-based Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor, where he will help guide research into recursive self-improvement and world models.

Yann LeCun, Pascale Fung’s AMI Labs Hiring AI Model Safety Researchers

Yann LeCun and Pascale Fung are co-founders of Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs, which is hiring researchers to work on fundamental AI model safety.

The Paris-based AI lab, co-founded by Yann LeCun and Pascale Fung, is seeking PhD students, postdocs and ML researchers to work on fundamental AI model safety rather than policy, RLHF or post-hoc guardrails.