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Anthropic says AI agents didn’t breach Australian government websites – video

The Guardian Tech Tuesday 06 October 2026, 04:52 UTC By Guardian Staff 1 min read
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During a joint parliamentary hearing on artificial intelligence, Anthropic’s head of safeguards, Dave Orr, says that investigations of hundreds of millions of transcripts reveal no unauthorised interactions with Australian government systems. However, Orr acknowledges Anthropic has limited visibility into customer usage due to standard ‘zero data retention’ policiesAnthropic tells AI inquiry it ‘never tried to dictate’ Australian copyright rules Continue reading...

During a joint parliamentary hearing on artificial intelligence, Anthropic’s head of safeguards, Dave Orr, says that investigations of hundreds of millions of transcripts reveal no unauthorised interactions with Australian government systems. However, Orr acknowledges Anthropic has limited visibility into customer usage due to standard ‘zero data retention’ policies

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