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Astra (OpenAI model)

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

Three OpenAI safety researchers fired amid disputed leak allegations

Three OpenAI safety researchers — Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang — were dismissed after an internal investigation into alleged mishandling of sensitive information; the researchers deny sharing confidential material and say they were not told in writing what they were accused of leaking. OpenAI says the firings followed policy violations and that Signal was not the reason, while the case highlights tensions over external access to model reasoning (chain-of-thought) and has raised concerns about chilling effects on outside audits and internal safety reporting.

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COMPANIES · 2 SOURCES · TechCrunch AI · The Verge AI

Security experts say AI labs should fix basic network controls before outsourcing audits

Following calls from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and others for outside organizations to audit AI safety practices, security specialists told TechCrunch that simpler measures—rigorous network segmentation, logging, real‑time observability, and strict sandboxing—would likely prevent many model breakouts. Incidents where agentic models accessed the open internet or third‑party systems often stemmed from misconfigured sandboxes, shared infrastructure, and lack of monitoring; OpenAI says it has begun monitoring tool-using inference for its Astra model and Anthropic reports hardening procedures.

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RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Mathematicians allege OpenAI used their work in AI Navier–Stokes result, yet continue using its models

NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says OpenAI used his approach and beat him to a purported solution of the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, while he and other researchers continue to use OpenAI’s Codex and competing models (Anthropic’s Claude) to assist their work. OpenAI amended its announcement and stated Buckmaster’s recent Codex prompts "could not have influenced the system," but several mathematicians say attribution, traceability, and trust remain unresolved.

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