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heats. Good morning, I'm Anna Pikeit. And I'm Larissa Huntington. It's Friday the 25th of September. In your Squiz today, OpenAI hacks Medicare. Donald Trump is hosting China's president at the White House. The countdown for the AFL grand final is on. And some spicy fish tacos. This is your Squiz today. Larissa, yesterday morning,
Not long after you and Andrew published on the podcast, PM Anthony Albanese revealed that an open AI agent had hacked into a Medicare website back in June. Yeah, this was huge news yesterday. So the PM said that it's come about after an open AI robot was researching Australian medical spending back on the 18th of June, but it
hit a speed bump when trying to access public and non-public files in a Medicare data portal. It then took it upon itself to access these files unauthorised, which the PM said was unacceptable. But it's important for us to point out that Albanese said that it doesn't look like anyone's personal information has been stolen. Now, he says that he's told
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