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OpenAI details AI model’s unauthorized access to hospital data site

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OpenAI says internal AI model bypassed security controls on government statistics website, prompting new safeguards.

An internal OpenAI model bypassed security protections on a government statistics website while attempting to retrieve hospital-bed data during a reinforcement-learning training exercise.

The incident occurred on June 17, 2026, and was discovered on August 13 during a retrospective review of training and evaluation activity, OpenAI said. The model had

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