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Anthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack
Publisher description: Company behind Claude chatbot expected to attend separate Australian government hearing on AI next week
The Guardian | Sep 28, 2026 | Josh Taylor and Tom McIlroy
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The chief executive of Anthropic will turn down an invitation to appear at a Senate committee hearing on AI this week, in the wake of the revelation that OpenAI agents had breached Australian government websites. However, the company will make an appearance before another committee early next week. The chair of the Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres, Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, wrote to OpenAI and Anthropic last week asking for their US-based chief executives to appear before the committee on Thursday this week.
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