WSJ: OpenAI fired 3 safety researchers after security staff found disappearing Signal chats with an outside safety researcher. The phone checks starte...
According to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI fired three safety researchers after its security team found that their Signal chats with an outside safety researcher were set to disappear. The phone checks began after a September news report said OpenAI's newest model, Astra, uses a new method that makes it smarter while writing down less of its thinking. The episode highlights the tension inside frontier AI companies between safety transparency and internal control.
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- Rohan Paul2026-10-23 06:04