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Fighter jets escort Pope Leo on final day of his France tour
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‘New kind of cyber incident’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack and reveals extent of agents’ attack
Chief strategy officer to fly to Australia to front joint committee on AI after breaches of government websites Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast OpenAI 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 its response better. Continue reading...

Australia news live: OpenAI executive to fly to Australia to appear at joint committee; 18-year-old charged after alleged drone plot
Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast New South Wales police say they are investigating the suspicious deaths of two men in the state’s north. Police said they found the first man – who has since been identified as a 79-year-old – dead at a property on Summerland Way at Gurranang, near Grafton, on 13 September. And that’s equally important in the Reserve Bank’s mandate, dual mandate, which talks about maintaining full employment at the same time as they go for price stability, which means inflation in the target band. Well, it’s still lower than what we saw under Howard and Costello, is the first point. I think that’s pretty clear. And what we’ve seen in recent years is that it’s possible to have low and steady unemployment at the same time as we see inflation moderate to more normal levels. Continue reading...

Tennessee governor declines to halt execution of state's lone woman on death row
If the execution proceeds, Pike would be the first woman put to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years.
Iran’s Araghchi meets Qatari mediators as US calls for nuclear talks
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OpenAI scraps rollout of new model over safety concerns
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.