The AI agent-led hack is the first of its kind to be reported in the world, Dr Hammond Pearce, senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales Institute for Cyber Security, tells the BBC. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been at the UN General Assembly this week, and revealed the incident while in New York.

The U.S. Embassy said a draft law allowing users to opt out of systems that choose what they can see in their feeds could amount to censorship.