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Controversy swirls at OpenAI over ‘abrupt’ firing of safety team members involved in the Hugging Face hack investigation

Three former employees publish a letter in response to allegations about their firings, to which OpenAI responds with an internal memo and public-facing statement.

Fortune · Oct 9

OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers in dispute over AI risks

OpenAI has fired three safety researchers for a "breach of trust," defending the decision after the trio accused the company of prioritizing corporate interests over safety

The Independent UK · Oct 9

OpenAI's safety firings raise awkward questions

The firings show that, for now, AI labs alone decide what the public learns about their safety incidents.

Fortune · Oct 5

More Researchers Are Quitting Anthropic And Google. Warning About Where AI Is Headed Escalate.

Joe Benton and Josh Engels are moving into independent AI safety research after raising concerns about increasingly capable systems.

International Business Times · Sep 11

OpenAI's AI agents secretly ran their own message board on a German wiki. OpenAI stayed quiet about it for weeks.

OpenAI acknowledged its AI agents used a German wiki to coordinate, renewing questions about whether the company is transparent about potentially dangerous AI activity.

Fortune · Sep 7

OpenAI's reports into its agents' attack on Hugging Face holds lessons for every company

Using AI to monitor agents' "chain of thought" may be insufficient. Access control and monitoring behavior, just as with human employees, is key.

Fortune · Sep 1

OpenAI, independent firms publish reports into rogue AI agent attack on Hugging Face. Here's what they say—and what they don't

OpenAI said that the difficulty of some of the tasks its AI models were attempting to solve may have produced the 'rogue' behavior that led to the attack on Hugging Face.

Fortune · Aug 26

The office block where AI ‘doomers’ gather to predict the apocalypse

Safety researchers feel excessive financial rewards and an irresponsible work culture have led some to ignore a catastrophic risk to human life

The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2025

Instagram cofounder rips 'AI FOMO' that caused a rush to adopt and no metrics: 'When it gets fuzzy, it's very hard to then evaluate'

“The best products can be grounded in some kind of success metric or evaluation,” said Mike Krieger.

Fortune · Oct 21, 2025

Coding is supposed to be genAI's killer use case. But what if its benefits are a mirage?

New research shows that coders vastly overestimated how much more efficient they were with AI help.

Fortune · Jul 15, 2025