MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia plans to create an artificial intelligence safety regulator in response to a breach of an Australian health department website by a rogue OpenAI agent in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday.
The regulator would enforce world-leading legislated AI standards that would apply to all frontier AI companies that want to operate in Australia, Albanese said. Financial penalties would apply, although the government has yet to detail those penalties.
“When it comes to the generational opportunity that artificial intelligence offers Australia, I’ve been very clear: our task is to make sure we shape AI rather than AI shape us,” Albanese told reporters. “Australia is the first mover in this space and we want to make sure that we continue to work so that we can reap the potential benefits from AI.”
The standards would include companies maintaining security controls across all stages of models’ development and deployment, as well as identifying and managing serious risks. The standards also would mandate rapid notification to the government of incidents such as “misaligned behavior” conflicting with developers' intentions.
Australian government documents define frontier AI as the most sophisticated models at the cutting edge of current technological capability.
Albanese told OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman that the U.S. company took too long to inform the government in September that a rogue agent had infiltrated government websites three months earlier, which was the first occurrence of such a breach with the technology.
Information taken without authorization from the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18 has since been made public. It is not clear whether the portal breach broke any Australian laws.
OpenAI apologized in September for the breach and its slow response.
“We are sorry and working to do better in the future,” OpenAI said in a statement. “We also should have handled our response better.”
A government inquiry into the June breach made several recommendations including that the government consider changing the law.
Albanese said his government had accepted all the inquiry’s recommendations, including for potential criminal law reform.
“The point is law needs to get ahead of and in some cases make sure that it catches up with what is a very fast-changing world. And to be clear, Australia is a first-mover in these areas,” Albanese said.
The proposed AI regulator would follow Australia appointing an eSafety Commissioner in 2015. The office describes itself as the world’s first government agency dedicated to keeping people safer online.
Since December last year, the commissioner has been enforcing a world-first ban on Australian children younger than 16 holding accounts on popular social media platforms.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks about artificial intelligence during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (Hilary Wardhaugh/AAP Image via AP)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Buffalo Bills knew they weren't bound for many style points or likely to reach their league-leading scoring average against Minnesota's relentlessly revved-up defense.
Josh Allen, James Cook and the rest of the group were more than content to grind this one out.
Allen threw a touchdown pass with 44 seconds left before halftime and Cook had 31 carries for 107 yards and a late score for the Bills in a 23-6 victory on Monday night, sending Vikings deeper into an unmitigated offensive slump.
“We stuck with it, stuck with it, and eventually we broke it,” Cook said. “We knew what type of game it was going to be, a bloody game."
With Kyler Murray sidelined by a hamstring injury, Carson Wentz started at quarterback for the Vikings (6-2) and didn’t finish what became one of the worst performances of his 11-year career.
Linebackers Terrel Bernard and Dorian Williams had interceptions and Tyler Bass made three field goals to stretch his franchise-record streak to 24 straight as the Bills (7-1) matched their best eight-game start since 1993. That season ended with the last of their four straight Super Bowl losses.
"It’s just a mindset of going out there and not being result-driven, going out there and being process-driven and understanding what they’re trying to do," said Allen, who went 21 for 31 for 234 yards and one interception. “At the end of the day, having fun playing the game of football.”
The Vikings as usual sent blitzers at Allen from every angle possible, racking up four sacks. Allen heaved a third-and-23 throw into the end zone to beat the rush in the first quarter that Byron Murphy ran down and returned 55 yards. But the Bills eked out just enough in the first half to give themselves a lead, when Allen found tight end Keleki Latu open in the back of the end zone for a 25-yard touchdown as he rolled right and was hit hard by Andrew Van Ginkel.
“There was no panic early in the game when things weren’t going our way,” coach Joe Brady said, marveling at his team's 42:32 possession time. “Eventually you end up making it a game that they weren’t willing to play.”
Wentz went 8 for 25 for 81 yards and three turnovers, including a backward pass in the first quarter that was thrown too high for even Justin Jefferson to catch it — resulting in a lost fumble near midfield.
Wentz, who was checked out in the medical tent at one point for an apparent lower leg injury, was replaced by Max Brosmer midway through the fourth quarter. Wentz completed 1 of 8 passes in the second half, and the Vikings finished with just 178 total yards.
The battle between the best offense and best defense in the NFL might well have gone to Minnesota had the offense been able to muster a decent drive or two.
But the Vikings had four straight possessions in the first half start beyond their 40-yard line, and the furthest they made it was the Bills 48.
“Put tonight 100% on me. It’s not about any one particular player," Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell said. "But we’ve got to improve offensively, at a rapid pace.”
O'Connell blamed himself for not calling more running plays: Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones combined for just 11 carries when it was clear from the start how off-the-mark Wentz was. Jefferson finished with three catches for 58 yards on 11 targets.
“I've always said it doesn’t really matter who’s throwing the ball, as long as it gets there,” Jefferson said. "That’s all that matters. It’s up to us to make those plays. It’s tough, definitely tough.”
With 322 regular-season touchdowns — 232 passing, 88 rushing and two receiving — Allen tied Peyton Manning for the most in NFL history over a player's first 10 years. Allen is halfway through his ninth season.
Bills: Starting LT Dion Dawkins (ribs) and starting LG Alec Anderson (ankle) were inactive.
Vikings: WR Jauan Jennings (calf) and FS Theo Jackson (quadriceps) were inactive.
Bills: At the New York Jets on Sunday.
Vikings: At Green Bay on Sunday.
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Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson, left, drops a backwards pass recovered by the Buffalo Bills during the first half of an NFL football game in Minneapolis, Monday, Nov. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) and tight end Keleki Latu (83) celebrate a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings in Minneapolis, Monday, Nov. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Carson Wentz (11) grimaces as he walks off the field during the second half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills in Minneapolis, Monday, Nov. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Bailey Hillesheim)
Buffalo Bills running back James Cook III (4) celebrates his touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings in Minneapolis, Monday, Nov. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) escapes pressures by Minnesota Vikings linebacker Andrew Van Ginkel, right, during the second half of an NFL football game in Minneapolis, Monday, Nov. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Bailey Hillesheim)
