Australia says OpenAI agent hacked government site before Altman warning
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Anthony Albanese said the agent accessed public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal in June, calling OpenAI's three-month delay in disclosing the breach "unacceptable."
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The activity began in May and remained undisclosed until Friday, a day after OpenAI launched Astra and U.S. lawmakers proposed restrictions on advanced AI.
Financial Times: OpenAI had explored offering a 5% stake to the US government.
According to Foresight News , citing two sources familiar with the matter, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI explored granting the U.S. government a 5% stake to strengthen its relationship with the Trump administration and expand public participation in the benefits of artificial intelligence. Sources familiar with the matter said the proposal, still in the conceptual stage, was raised by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in early discussions with U.S. officials. Senior Trump administration officials were involved in the discussions, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, but any such arrangement would likely require congressional approval. The plan aims to address increasing political scrutiny by allowing direct public involvement in the industry's long-term development. The Financial Times reports that it remains unclear whether other companies interested in artificial intelligence, including Anthropic, Google (GOOG), and Meta (META), will support the proposal. OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, declined to comment to the Financial Times.
OpenAI plans to offer a 5% stake to the Trump administration; Altman encourages AI developers to follow suit.
According to a report by the Financial Times on July 2nd, BlockBeats reports that OpenAI has discussed offering a 5% stake to the US government. The $852 billion AI startup is attempting to overcome political obstacles by securing financial support from the Trump administration. According to two sources familiar with the matter, Sam Altman told senior government officials that allowing the public to hold financial shares in the company is the best way to share in the benefits of AI development, and proposed this percentage in early discussions with the government. Under the proposed arrangement, other US AI companies would also offer similar percentages of shares, but it is unclear whether other labs are willing to do so. Offering ownership to the government would help build a good relationship with the government and also marks an attempt to address political backlash by sharing the wealth created by AI with the public. The environment for AI labs in Washington is becoming increasingly challenging due to growing concerns among the American public and politicians about the construction of large-scale data centers and the impact of AI on jobs and cybersecurity. Sam Altman and other OpenAI executives have suggested that every leading AI developer in the U.S. should allocate 5% of its equity to an entity similar to the Alaska Permanent Fund—a sovereign wealth fund that invests a state's oil wealth in stocks and distributes dividends to state governments and residents. These companies could include Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, and others, but it is unclear whether any of these groups will agree to OpenAI's proposal. Sources familiar with the matter say that "conceptual" negotiations between the government and OpenAI are in their early stages, and any agreement may require congressional legislation to be implemented. However, these discussions reveal a potential mechanism for distributing the financial benefits of the technology.
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