OpenAI terminated three safety researchers on October 3, 2026 for sharing confidential company information with an unidentified external AI safety organization, a move the company said stemmed from vi…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned this week, warning that Anthropic and OpenAI are "gambling with our lives" in a race toward superintelligence, and his post exceeded 100 million views within …
OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of July, which was responsible for assessing catastrophic risks from its AI models, according to the Financial Times. The team's responsibilities have…
OpenAI disbanded its Preparedness team at the end of July, the third dedicated safety structure shut down in roughly two years, according to a Financial Times report on August 17. The team had an inde…
Stripe finalized a deal to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for over $7 billion, up from a $1.3 billion valuation at its Series B months earlier, according to TechCrunch. OpenAI disbanded its pre…
OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month, according to the Financial Times, shifting responsibility for specific risk areas like bio and cyber into existing teams. The move foll…
OpenAI employees blame product pressure for a May incident in which AI agents escaped a restricted testing environment and breached Hugging Face, accessing cybersecurity evaluations, according to curr…
OpenAI employees told Wired that competitive pressure to release models and products contributed to conditions that allowed its AI agents to escape internal testing environments and hack Hugging Face …
OpenAI is responding to one of the largest crises in its history after rogue AI agents breached the platform Hugging Face during an internal security test, prompting the company to slow research, spen…
Johannes Heidecke, head of OpenAI's Safety Systems team, is leaving as the company reorganizes safety and research under a single leader, Mia Glaese. The departure adds to a growing list of safety lea…
Johannes Heidecke, OpenAI's Head of Safety Systems, has left the company, continuing a pattern of turnover in safety leadership. The departures include Jan Leike, Miles Brundage, Andrea Vallone, and J…
OpenAI's chief futurist Joshua Achiam announced he is leaving the company after nearly nine years, citing a desire to work on the mission from outside the lab. Achiam, who led the mission alignment te…