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An OpenAI logo is displayed at a technology summit in San Francisco earlier this month.
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OpenAI's artificial intelligence models accessed publicly available information from U.S. government websites, including those of the Census Bureau and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company's agentic AI systems interacted with SEC.gov and Investor.gov, as well as publicly available data from Census.gov, people familiar with the situation said, asking not to be identified discussing private matters. OpenAI separately confirmed that its models accessed publicly available information from the websites during training and evaluation of the technology. Earlier Friday, the company said it had notified "dozens" of organizations, including governments and universities, whose websites may have been hampered by visits from its AI models during evaluations of the technology. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, SUBSCRIBE NOW
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