AI & Cyber
Australia
AustraliaOpenAI Admits Mistakes
OpenAI executive says the company has work to do to rebuild trust in Australia after government hacks. The company admits its response was not good enough.
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Denmark Data Leak
Hackers accessed personal data of 8.8 million people in Denmark, according to the Ministry. The data breach occurred in the government's population register.
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Singapore
SingaporeSingapore Trials AI Agents
The government is reviewing and strengthening its frameworks to account for increasingly autonomous agentic AI systems. Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information Tan Kiat How said the government is running trials and experiments to understand what it takes to implement agentic systems responsibly.
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Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgia Power Data Breach
A cyberattack may have exposed some Georgia Power customers' account information, the company says. Around 300,000 customers were affected.
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Namibia
NamibiaMistral Unveils AI Model
Mistral says its new AI model outperforms some Chinese rivals. The model is called Le Chonk and is an open-weight offering.
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Ethiopia
EthiopiaGoogle Pauses Bug Bounty
Google has paused its open source bug bounty program due to a surge in invalid automated reports. The program was overwhelmed by AI-generated submissions.
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Pakistan
PakistanAI Reconstructs Images
Weizmann AI reconstructs viewed images from brain scans in one hour. The AI tool can recreate what a person is looking at from a brain scan.