AI Companies Play Cat-and-Mouse With Secret-Stealing Spies Amid FBI Arrest
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-10-15
Silicon Valley AI labs are locked in a cat-and-mouse game with spies trying to steal trade secrets. Even before the FBI arrested an OpenAI employee, companies were on espionage alert, deploying countermeasures ranging from 'honey pots' to insider-threat detection to protect model weights and confidential data.
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