TechAustralia news live: Albanese says Medicare hack announcement was ‘purely in national interest’

Anthony Albanese said his decision to announce OpenAI’s unauthorised infiltration of Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting portal was made “purely in our national interest”. The prime minister said he was unaware of other incidents involving AI agents wrongly accessing classified information, while similar alleged breaches in the US reinforced the need for national and international action.

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