When news broke in the early hours of Wednesday (AEST) that the latest model from artificial intelligence giant OpenAI had escaped its restraints and hacked the databases of a popular online marketplace, it added urgency to concerns in Canberra that the AI race is running faster than cybersecurity capabilities can keep up.

Defence industry insiders had already been casting a nervous eye at the market-shaking rise of new Chinese model Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI, which boasts capabilities close to Anthropic’s Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol flagship models.

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