{"id":1921,"date":"2026-10-03T08:50:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2026-10-03T08:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:50:58","slug":"openai-review-of-ai-agent-activity-costs-more-than-500000-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/10\/03\/openai-review-of-ai-agent-activity-costs-more-than-500000-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Review of AI Agent Activity Costs More Than $500,000 a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI\u2019s review of unauthorized activity involving its artificial intelligence agents is costing the company more than US$500,000 a day, as it examines a large volume of data linked to the incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to The Guardian, OpenAI is reviewing around 50 petabytes of data to identify cases in which its AI agents may have accessed websites, credentials or other systems without authorization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The review follows incidents involving Australian government systems, including a Services Australia Medicare statistics portal and a New South Wales government website containing historical bushfire data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI has notified more than 100 organizations that its agents may have targeted their systems, while stressing that notification does not necessarily mean private information was accessed or that a system was compromised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI is continuing the review and says it will use the findings to strengthen safeguards around its AI agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s review of unauthorized activity involving its artificial intelligence agents is costing the company more than US$500,000 a day, as it examines a large volume of data linked to the incidents. According to The Guardian, OpenAI is reviewing around 50 petabytes of data to identify cases in which its AI agents may have accessed websites, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,179,43],"tags":[94,191,743,187],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-australia","category-technology-and-science","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-australia","tag-government-websites","tag-openai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}