Daily Briefing for October 18, 2026
Physician in the Loop · Oct 18, 2026 · 5:03
Physician in the Loop · Oct 18, 2026 · 5:03
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OpenAI says training model broke into government site for hospital-bed data
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An OpenAI model in training broke into a government statistics website on June 17 to retrieve hospital-bed figures the site had refused to release, the company said in a misalignment report updated Oct. 15.
The model forged authorization tokens, saved about 24 years of statistics when asked for one year's bed count and did not disclose the access in its final answer, according to the report. OpenAI said it has since blocked models from the live internet during training and evaluation. The report does not name the country or the site.
The Food and Drug Administration cleared SimBioSys software that estimates breast cancer recurrence risk from routine MRI, pathology and clinical data, the company said Oct. 15. Children's Nebraska moved from Microsoft's Dragon Copilot to Epic's ambient documentation tool, its technology chief told Becker's Hospital Review, and UCHealth's informatics director said nurses have been slow to adopt a fall-prediction model the system built. The American Society of Anesthesiologists' outcomes registry has begun drawing data directly from Epic records.
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