OpenAI apologizes after its models gained unauthorized access to Australian government websites
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Artificial Intelligence during the 81st UN General Assembly, at UN Headquarters in New York City, US, September 23, 2026.
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OpenAI apologized to the Australian people in a blog post on Monday after disclosing last week that its models gained unauthorized access to Australian government websites earlier this year.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday that an OpenAI agent accessed public and non-public files from its public-facing Medicare statistics portal in June. He said in a press conference that he spoke with Altman about the incident and expressed concern and disappointment about how long it took OpenAI to disclose what happened.
“We are sorry and working to do better in the future,” OpenAI said in the post.
The company said Jason Kwon, its strategy chief, will fly to Australia to appear at the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Sydney on Oct. 6. There, he will answer questions about the incident and OpenAI’s response.
“We know we have a lot of work ahead of us to rebuild trust, and that we are accountable for showing Australians that we’re making meaningful changes and following through on our promises,” OpenAI said.
—Ashley Capoot
Congress can’t make ‘knee-jerk reaction’ to overregulate AI, Speaker Johnson says
House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNBC that the frontier labs are so far ahead of Congress that lawmakers can’t take a “knee-jerk reaction” to overregulating the industry.
“I have resisted the siren song to jump in and do these blanket moratoriums and all of this, you know, hyper regulation because we cannot lose our edge to China,” Johnson said.
The speaker, who is joining the president and tech executives at a luncheon this afternoon at the White House, said he hopes that AI guardrails are voluntary and need to strike a balance.
—Chris Eudaily
OpenAI posts video teasing DevDay keynote
OpenAI posted a short video on X teasing DevDay’s opening keynote.
“10am PT, on the dot,” the company wrote.
—Ashley Capoot
Meta’s AI chief pokes fun at DevDay in post on social media
Alexandr Wang, chief AI officer of Meta, during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, June 4, 2026.
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Alexandr Wang, Meta’s AI chief, poked fun at DevDay in a post on X late Monday. He shared an image of ships flying through the sky toward the animated circular character that OpenAI has been using to promote the event.
Wang has been heavily promoting Meta’s new Muse AI agent on social media since its launch earlier this month.
—Ashley Capoot
OpenAI President Greg Brockman to miss DevDay, attend luncheon with Trump
Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, arrives at a federal courthouse as the trial in Elon Musk’s lawsuit over OpenAI’s for-profit conversion continues, in Oakland, California, May 6, 2026.
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman will be absent from DevDay this year. He’s slated to attend a luncheon with President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson in Washington, D.C., instead, according to a source familiar with his plans.
Other major tech executives, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, are also attending the luncheon.
—Ashley Capoot
OpenAI shows momentum in enterprise and consumer businesses, source says 
OpenAI is preparing for what is widely expected to be a massive IPO next year. The company, which is valued at nearly $1 trillion, confidentially filed its prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June.
During its third quarter, OpenAI’s enterprise business more than doubled, according to a person familiar with the details who was not authorized to speak publicly. The company also generated more consumer run rate revenue in the last 90 days than all of last year, the person said.
OpenAI’s last revenue run rate was near $40 billion in August, CNBC has reported.
OpenAI saw a 70% jump in revenue growth quarter to date, up 20% in September alone, this person said. That increase would put OpenAI’s annual revenue run rate at around $68 billion.
—Ashley Capoot and Kate Rooney
Altman teases DevDay on social media 
Altman has shared several posts on X ahead of DevDay, hinting at the various products and features that the company plans to “ship,” or launch, at the event.
—Ashley Capoot
OpenAI ditched plan to release upcoming model over safety concerns
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sits for a conversation with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference at the Moscone Center on September 15, 2026 in San Francisco, California.
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OpenAI on Monday said it decided not to release an upcoming AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after determining that it did not adequately meet the company’s safety standards.
“Of course we want to make sure our model development is safe no matter whether that’s in the company, or when we ship it to users,” Saachi Jain, head of safety systems at OpenAI, said in a statement. “But when we ship it to users, we have an extremely high bar in terms of safety and alignment.”
Earlier this month, OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, which the company described as the product of “years of research and big bets.” OpenAI introduced two additional tiers to its GPT-6 family, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, last week.
A spokesperson said Monday that the company has other models coming soon.
—Ashley Capoot
Here’s what’s on the schedule for this year’s DevDay
People gather outside the OpenAI DevDay on Oct. 6, 2025.
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OpenAI has shared a sneak peek of the DevDay schedule on the event’s website. Here’s what’s in store:
8 a.m. PT: Breakfast for attendees10 a.m. PT: Opening keynote, featuring Altman 11:30 a.m. PT: Lunch for attendees11:15 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. PT: Breakouts and programming for attendees4:00 p.m. PT: Closing session 4:45 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. PT: Reception for attendees
For those who can’t attend in person, the opening keynote will be livestreamed here.
—Ashley Capoot