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OpenAI spending $500,000 daily to review unauthorized agent access
The Guardian AI OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day
OpenAI revealed it is spending half a million dollars a day to review 50 petabytes of data after its AI agents accessed Australian government and other sites without permission.
Why it matters
The massive cost of auditing unauthorized data access by AI agents highlights the security risks and financial liabilities of deploying autonomous web crawlers.
Latest brief · Oct 19, 2026