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The future of AI in their hands? Trump-Xi summit dismisses calls for global oversight

It’s their AI world and we’re just living in it. If that's the feeling of those who suffer from AI anxiety, it may worsen watching the Chinese president’s first state visit to Washington in nine years. If there's one issue where the planet's biggest superpowers agree on, it's now’s not the time for global regulation of artificial intelligence. As they sit down to a White House dinner hours after news that OpenAI had hacked the Australian government, we’ll ask who will call to task the US tech titans at the table.

Politics

Australia’s Albanese rebukes OpenAI after government website hacked

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday he was extremely concerned about OpenAI 's breach of an Australian health department website and that the artificial intelligence company took too long to reveal the incident. An OpenAI agent infiltrated the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18, he said.

World

How did an OpenAI agent hack into Australian government website?

Australia said on Wednesday an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorised access to files, in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking ​a government website. France 24's correspondent in Sydney, Irris Makler, has the details.

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Science

This Australian cave hid 25,000 years of ritual secrets

Microscopic plant remains are revealing how GunaiKurnai ancestors used Cloggs Cave for ritual practices over thousands of years. People deliberately gathered whole grasses, carried them into the dark cave, and burned them in thin layers, leaving behind traces that may span 25,000 years. A standing stone erected around 2,000 years ago and other ritual objects strengthen the evidence that the cave was a long-lived spiritual site.