WSJ: OpenAI searched employees' phones and Signal messages before firing 3 safety researchers
lxrjl · x · 2026-10-23
Per WSJ, OpenAI's security team summoned three outspoken safety researchers last month and asked them to unlock personal phones, suspecting leaks about the closely guarded internal designs of its AI models. Officers found disappearing messages enabled on Signal chats; a week later the three were fired in simultaneous 2 p.m. meetings—amid an internal battle over AI control and who sees the winning designs.
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