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A data breach at OpenAI has exposed sensitive Australian government records, including Medicare information, raising urgent questions about how AI companies handle public sector data. The BBC's Lily Jamali reports the incident is prompting calls for stricter oversight of government contracts with AI providers, and the fallout is still unfolding.
Shifting to cryptography, a week-long AI coding contest organized by StarkWare has dramatically reduced the estimated cost of a quantum-safe bitcoin transaction, from three hundred twenty dollars down to sixty-six. Participants using AI tools made the underlying computation roughly five times faster, though that sixty-six dollar figure has yet to be independently verified on a live transaction mined on the Bitcoin network.
And in an area where neuroscience meets controversy, new research published in Nature suggests psilocybin may offer a viable treatment pathway for repetitive mild head injuries. The study points to the compound's potential to reduce neuroinflammation and support recovery, a finding that adds to growing clinical interest in psychedelic-assisted medicine, though researchers are careful to note this work remains at an early stage.
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