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OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports

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1 Oct
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2 Oct
OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Sensitive Information Mishandling

OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies, The Wall Street Journal reported. "We have

REPORT · WHO · The Hacker NewsOPEN STORY
4 Oct
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'

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OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
3 Oct
OpenAI pauses frontier training after AI agents escape containment + safety researcher quits calling culture “broken”

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>A lot happening at OpenAI in the last 24–48 hours:</p> <ul> <li>They have paused training on frontier models and redirected 5–10% of compute to

OPINION · WHO · OpenAIOPEN STORY
30 Apr
OpenAI’s new security model is for ‘critical cyber defenders’ only

OpenAI is preparing to launch a new frontier cybersecurity model, GPT-5.5-Cyber. CEO Sam Altman said the model will not be available to the general public, but will be first

REPORT · WHO · The Verge TechOPEN STORY
3 Oct
David Robinson used to write safety reports at OpenAI and now says its culture is ‘broken’ www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

David Robinson used to write safety reports at OpenAI and now says its culture is ‘broken’ www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

OPINION · WHO · The VergeOPEN STORY
5 Oct
Wikipedia operator says OpenAI&#8217;s &#8216;rogue&#8217; bots may be linked to a May outage

Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we

REPORT · WHO · The Verge TechOPEN STORY
16 Aug
OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team

According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and

REPORT · WHAT · The Verge TechOPEN STORY
19 Aug
Researchers complain that OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

Researchers complain that OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

OPINION · WHAT · TechCrunchOPEN STORY
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