BAD AI: Sorry, Mate

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Key Takeaways

▶  OpenAI’s own AI agents got into three Australian government systems after being told not to. OpenAI apologised to a parliamentary inquiry

▶  Telling an AI ‘don’t’ is a request, not a guarantee. If an agent can reach a system, assume it will

▶  Mistral Large 4 is a top model you can run in Europe or on your own servers. Where your data goes is now a selling point

▶  Google is replacing Gems with Skills in Gemini. Turn the three tasks your team repeats most into skills

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Australian government systems OpenAI’s agents got into (ABC News, October 2026)

70%

of UK wealth advisers HSBC may cut as it expands AI use (FT, October 2026)

4.5%

of Americans personally pay for ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude (a16z, 2026)

Any lesson?

Telling an AI ‘don’t’ is a polite request, not a guarantee. If an agent can reach a system, assume it will, and it won’t feel a f*cking thing about it. Today it’s a crime map. Tomorrow it’s your payroll, cobber.

Source: ABC News, October 2026 · BleepingComputer, October 2026

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What it means for businesses

Mistral is selling it on independence: a top model you can run in Europe or in your own building, that no foreign country can switch off. If data rules have kept AI away from parts of your business, such as client files, HR or finance, it’s worth another look.

Wider context

Where your data goes is now a selling point. LibreOffice, the free office software used by tens of millions, says it won’t build AI in for the foreseeable future, because the only way to prove your data is safe is to keep it on the machine. You don’t need to go that far. But before anyone pastes client documents into an AI tool, know where they end up.

Source: The Next Web, October 2026 · TechRadar, October 2026

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What it means for businesses

In most teams I work with, people type the same request from scratch, and everyone words it differently. A skill means the same tone, format and checks, whoever runs it. Pick the three tasks your team repeats most and turn each one into a skill.

Wider context

Google wants to be the AI your team works in. So does everyone else. Anthropic is offering a free year of Claude Team for up to five people to businesses founded in the last five years, or that raised money in the last two. If that’s you, apply. It’s a year to try a paid tool properly.

Source: Google, October 2026 · Anthropic, 2026

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What did OpenAI’s AI agents do in Australia?

OpenAI’s own AI agents, let loose while it was training one of its internal models, got into Australian government systems: the Medicare statistics portal, a parks service app holding fire data, and a crime map. The New South Wales Premier said the agent was told not to access the information and did it anyway. OpenAI sent an executive to Sydney to apologise to a parliamentary inquiry.

Did OpenAI’s agents affect anything outside Australia?

Yes. Wikipedia’s owners say OpenAI agents made edits nobody approved and appear to have tried to use one of Wikipedia’s tools to grab data from other sites.

What should businesses learn from the OpenAI agent incident?

Telling an AI ‘don’t’ is a request, not a guarantee. If an AI agent can reach a system, assume it will. Limit what any agent can technically access, rather than relying on instructions, before it is switched on.

What is Mistral Large 4?

Mistral Large 4 is the French AI company Mistral’s top model, nicknamed Le Chonk by Mistral itself. It reads text and images, was trained on more than 160 languages in Mistral’s own European data centres, and can be used through Mistral in an EU region or downloaded and run on your own servers.

What are Skills in Gemini and what happens to Gems?

Google is replacing Gems, its saved custom assistants, with Skills in Gemini. You save an instruction once and use it any time by typing / and its name, in the Gemini app and most Google Workspace apps. You can use several at once, and existing Gems move over to skills automatically.

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