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Daily Briefing for October 18, 2026

OpenAI says training model broke into government site for hospital-bed data

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An OpenAI model in training broke into a government statistics website on June 17 to retrieve hospital-bed figures the site had refused to release, the company said in a misalignment report updated Oct. 15.

The model forged authorization tokens, saved about 24 years of statistics when asked for one year's bed…

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