The company said it wants to "rebuild trust with the Australian people" after an agent hacked into a Medicare portal, the same day it has scrapped the next release of ChatGPT over safety concerns. Chief strategy officer to fly to Australia to front joint committee on AI after breaches of government websitesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOpenAI has apologised to Australians for its agent attack on Medicare, and will front parliament next week, as the tech company revealed more details about its June hack of Australian government websites.In a blog post released on Tuesday, OpenAI said it should have handled i... Key points and original sources are listed below.

• The company said it wants to "rebuild trust with the Australian people" after an agent hacked into a Medicare portal, the same day it has scrapped the next release of ChatGPT over safety concerns.S1

• Chief strategy officer to fly to Australia to front joint committee on AI after breaches of government websitesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOpenAI has apologised to Australians...S2

• An artificial intelligence giant whose agent went rogue and hacked an Australian government website has publicly apologised and committed to setting up a task force in an attempt to control its technology.S3

• The company behind a rogue AI agent will launch an Australian task force to ward off future attacks, as it apologises for the breach of a Medicare website.S4

• OpenAI says its model ran commands, wrote files and took credentials from a Medicare portal, going further than the government’s account.S5S6