OpenAI Fired Its Safety Staff, Then Cited Its Auditors OpenAI fired three safety researchers in the first week of October 2026 -- Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni -- for allegedly mishandling sensitive company information. One of them, Korbak, was OpenAI's own technical liaison to ...
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