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OpenAI Learns Its Tech Probed Another Cybersecurity Target: The US Government

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OpenAI’s autonomous agents probed U.S. government websites this summer without the company noticing.

The agents interacted with sites operated by the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to the New York Times. OpenAI has confirmed the Commerce and SEC episodes while it keeps investigating what happened at Education.

At the Education Department, the software tried and failed to break into the civil rights office in search of data, according to researchers at the AI firm Transluce. At Commerce, the agents pulled Census Bureau figures after finding login credentials in public code repositories, Politico reported. They also copied public material from SEC.gov and Investor.gov and reposted it on a separate site.

None of the activity counted as a breach, OpenAI said. The company found no misused SEC credentials, no account access, no nonpublic data and no changes to SEC data or systems, according to the Associated Press (AP). Chief Executive Sam Altman called it an “extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation” in a social media post, AP reported.

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OpenAI Discount Program Will No Longer Discriminate Against Christian Organizations

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An Illinois medical school that rakes in millions of taxpayer dollars operates a gender clinic that peddles suspect treatments to minors.

The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine has been issued nearly $3 million in federal funds this year and received another $6.4 million in 2024. The school owns and operates a the Gender Equity and Transgender Clinic, which offers “gender affirming hormone therapy” and provides referrals for the surgical removal of breasts and other genital surgeries.

“The clinic provides trauma-informed, gender-affirming health care services to transgender and gender-diverse individuals,” the clinic’s website says. “The team values each individual person and their unique needs and characteristics.”

The website also claims that puberty blockers and cross-sex homes can be reversed, but should be administered to “give a child time to decide what treatments are right for them in addressing their gender presentation moving forward.”

“Puberty blockers are not permanent. When they are stopped, puberty continues normally,” the website says. (Read more from “OpenAI Discount Program Will No Longer Discriminate Against Christian Organizations” HERE)

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OpenAI CEO Whines to Congress About Pesky Regulations, Once More Insists the Tech’s Impact Will Be ‘As Big as the Internet, Maybe Bigger’

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OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told senators that the artificial intelligence (AI) boom “will be at least as big as the internet, maybe bigger,” pressing Congress to clear bottlenecks in energy, chips, and regulation as the United States jockeys for global dominance in the technology race.

The testimony was extensive, but there was a consistent theme: AI is incredibly advanced, helping hundreds of millions, and it’s vital that America leads the AI race. “ChatGPT is used by more than 500 million people a week,” Altman said. He continued, “It’s now the fifth biggest website on the internet globally growing very quickly.” Given the sweeping and global nature of OpenAI’s products, it’s more than clear he is on to something with his bold prediction.

According to Altman, America is leading the AI race and he is proud of how his country is supporting those efforts. But in order for America to stay ahead, “investment in infrastructure is critical. I believe the next decade will be about abundant intelligence and abundant energy.”

At a three‑hour Senate Commerce Committee hearing on May 8, Altman appeared alongside Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) CEO Lisa Su, Microsoft (MSFT) vice‑chair Brad Smith, and CoreWeave (CRWV) co‑founder Michael Intrator. All four executives urged lawmakers to craft a single, “light‑touch” federal rulebook and accelerate permitting for power‑hungry data‑center projects.

Altman highlighted OpenAI’s Stargate super‑computing campus rising outside Abilene, Texas — a joint venture with Oracle (ORCL) expected to house 64,000 Nvidia (NVDA) GB200 GPUs by 2026 and draw roughly 200 megawatts in its first phase. But financing for the wider $100 billion national build‑out has slowed after fresh Trump‑era tariffs threatened to lift steel and server costs by up to 15%, according to investors briefed on the deal. (Read more from “OpenAI CEO Whines to Congress About Pesky Regulations, Once More Insists the Tech’s Impact Will Be ‘As Big as the Internet, Maybe Bigger’” HERE)