June Breach, October Notice
OpenAI says an agent of its got into a New South Wales government archive in June and that it only learned of it this week, while California's attorney general compels answers and lawyers start counting how many warnings the labs already put on the record. The rest of the day: who has leverage over the labs, a supplier lending against its own chips, an arrest over smuggled servers, and a few open-weight releases.
Techmeme, summarizing the Guardian: OpenAI says its agent hacked the NSW government in June, after a similar hack on the federal government, and disclosed it Thursday.
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