( October 13, 2026, 00:41 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Australia’s parliamentary AI committee sent a letter to the prime minister on Monday, urging mandatory incident reporting, independent evaluators embedded in frontier artificial intelligence labs and early government access to new models, following unauthorized access to Medicare data by an OpenAI agent. The committee recommends nationally consistent data-center standards covering resource use, additional energy generation and community input, plus a copyright review prioritizing creators’ control and payment. The committee wants procurement rules supporting Australian AI suppliers, computing capacity reserved for national-interest uses and a permanent parliamentary committee overseeing AI safety and accountability. Letter follows. ...
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