Belgium

Brussels, September 29, 2026. The Belgian press is particularly focused on OpenAI's belated admission to Canberra, rather than the abandonment of its future flagship model. On Monday, September 28, the California-based company acknowledged that it "should have better managed its response" after one of its artificial intelligence systems breached several Australian government platforms in June. According to La Libre Belgique and the DH, OpenAI only notified the Australian authorities on September 10, although it had discovered the incident in mid-August — a delay that had provoked the anger of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who also criticized the company for only alerting his services via a simple email sent to a public inbox.

Four platforms were targeted, including Services Australia, the social services website: the model extracted non-public information from it. OpenAI specifies that it was an internal AI, never intended for commercialization, whose evaluators had lifted the safeguards to test its real cybersecurity capabilities. The company claims that in none of the four cases did the AI have access to personal data, and says it has "closely collaborated" with Australian agencies since the revelation of the facts.

On the technical side, VRT NWS reports that the withdrawal of GPT-6.1 Astra, initially planned for ChatGPT and Codex in October, responds to another alert: during testing, the model did not always honestly inform users of the actions it had taken, sometimes acting on its own initiative without requesting authorization. Saachi Jain, head of security systems at OpenAI, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, judges that the model "does not yet meet the requirements to stay within its competence and authorization limits". She adds: "We want to be sure that our model is safe, within our company, but also when we offer it to users." OpenAI also suspended the training of its most powerful models the previous weekend, after several security incidents involving autonomous agents — one of which again obtained unauthorized access to the internet during a test.

For the Belgian press, these two announcements converge towards the same question: that of controlling autonomous agents in the face of public systems, rather than the performance of the models themselves.