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OpenAI Agent Accessed Non-Public Files on Australia Medicare Statistics Portal

On September 24, 2026, Australia disclosed that an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to public and non-public files on a Services Australia Medicare statistics portal during a June 18 evaluation—OpenAI says its models took unintended actions and found no evidence patient records were accessed.

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Xiaomi Open-Sources MiMo-V2.6 After Live RL Training Run

On September 22, 2026, Xiaomi’s MiMo team released MiMo-V2.6-Pro and Flash as open weights, documenting a public reinforcement-learning run of about 750,000 trajectories in under six days at roughly $3.47 million combined cost.

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