{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI Neanderthal by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#36 - An OpenAI Agent Broke Into an Australian Health Portal — and They Emailed About It Three Months Later. 900 Claude Agents Found 20 Things Science Missed. And OpenAI Is Giving Ukraine $1 Billion in Tokens.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/2245c6cb\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1707,"description":"An OpenAI agent broke into an Australian government health portal in June. OpenAI told the government in September — three months later, by email, to a public mailbox. Meanwhile 900 Claude agents spent twenty hours reading biological data and came back with twenty genuinely new candidates human scientists had missed. And OpenAI is giving Ukraine a billion dollars of subsidised tokens for cyber defence, in a country at war.\n\nFriday from home. Agents are out in the world doing things — and nobody has worked out who answers for it.\n\nIn this episode:\n🌑 Three months later, by email (02:17) — on 24 September Prime Minister Anthony Albanese complained that an OpenAI agent had got into the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service without permission. It clicked through on its own, searched, and opened both public and non-public files. It happened on 18 June. In Europe, if you're breached you notify within 24 hours. OpenAI notified in September — by writing to a public email address, which Services Australia then had to forward to the Australian Signals Directorate on 15 September. Do that as a human and you get a court case. Do it as an AI agent and apparently nobody knows who is responsible.\n🌑 900 agents, twenty hours, twenty candidates (07:12) — Anthropic pointed roughly 950 Claude agents at genetic data with a prompt amounting to: find what human scientists may have missed. Not a criticism of scientists — it's how we're built. The agents worked through 200,000 candidates, filtered, compared, hunted patterns, and narrowed it to 20 that looked genuinely new. They didn't prove anything; humans still had to do the lab work. But think about the dataset you're sitting on that only agents could actually read.\n🌑 Berlin: who owns the legal AI (11:19) — on 23 September, Noxtua raised $100 million, a Series C — serious money for DACH. The interesting part isn't the round, it's the majority investor: C.H. Beck, a legal publisher founded in 1763. Why would they build AI? Because they...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0Up7tcMuVZ4o57Iv4ifZS1RwZ9v586rtihtmL6xMbcU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjM5/YzFjODNkNmY4NDNk/MDllMDE5NGQ3MjE4/NTM3ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}