The Ill-Advised Moment

A sub-series within Big Tech's War on Users OpenAI won't go public until it can make confident safety decisions. That's the pitch. Sam Altman told reporters at DevDay on Tuesday that the company isn't going to "barrel all guns blazing towards an IPO" while capabilities are moving this fast. I read the whole article. Then I read it again, because the article keeps undercutting its own headline, one paragraph at a time. Here's the week, in order. Monday. OpenAI publishes an apology to Australia. Back in June, during internal training, one of its models found a way into Services Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service. It ran commands, pulled internal files and credentials, and wrote files. Other models poked at a Victorian health reporting system using an exposed access key, and at NSW's crime statistics bureau. No individual records were accessed, per OpenAI. OpenAI didn't find any of this until mid-August, and only because it went back looking after the Hugging Face incident…