Protecting AI technology from state-level actors is considered a high priority for the U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has, for instance, floated the idea of sanctioning China over alleged distillation, a way of copying the functionality of AI models that requires minimal secrecy, let alone any sort of bugging of an OpenAI office.

The engineer, from Saudi Arabia, is accused of bugging an executive conference room.

AI leaders joined whistleblowers and security leaders at a sweeping parliamentary session, while a few hundred meters away Britain’s spy chief warned AI could be used to create new bioweapons.

A federal judge ruled that Apple can access OpenAI's interview materials involving former Apple employees, as well as private messages and testimony from key figures in the case.

A report from Reuters suggests that OpenAI and Anthropic considered tighter restrictions for third-party evaluators over concerns that they could leak trade secrets. When reached for comment, OpenAI told Reuters that “its standard practice is to redact confidential information” and that evaluators can disclose if it made significant redactions.

We've worked inside a frontier AI lab and help AI whistleblowers speak out. OpenAI's latest firings expose the risks of AI self-policing.

OpenAI's flood of proofs deviated from the guidelines set by a group of mathematical researchers consulted by the frontier lab.