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title: "Australia is drafting legislation for an AI safety regulator empowered to impose \"significant penalties\" after an OpenAI model hacked a government site in Sept. (James Mayger/Bloomberg)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/australia-is-drafting-legislation-for-an-ai-safety-regulator-empowered-438231fc
published: 2026-11-10T04:40:00.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Australia is drafting legislation for an AI safety regulator empowered to impose "significant penalties" after an OpenAI model hacked a government site in Sept. (James Mayger/Bloomberg)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-10 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/australia-is-drafting-legislation-for-an-ai-safety-regulator-empowered-438231fc

James Mayger / Bloomberg : Australia is drafting legislation for an AI safety regulator empowered to impose "significant penalties" after an OpenAI model hacked a government site in Sept. — Australia will create a new artificial-intelligence safety regulator that will have the power to impose …

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261109/p53#a261109p53)

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