At least seven people were killed after gunmen opened fire inside a church in Jordan’s Karak province 90 miles south of the capital Amman, Jordan’s public security agency said.
Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang tell The Wall Street Journal that OpenAI terminated them after finding disappearing messages on Signal in a chat with Ryan Greenblatt, the former chief scientist at AI safety evaluator Redwood Research. OpenAI reportedly accused Greenblatt of leaking details about its Astra AI model to The Information, which Greenblatt has denied.
OpenAI tells the WSJ that the researchers were fired for violating “clear policies for handling sensitive information,” and “not for raising safety concerns or speaking out.”
[Link: The Signal Chats That Cost OpenAI Researchers Their Jobs | https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-signal-chats-that-cost-openai-researchers-their-jobs-594c5853?st=H9AUaC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink | The Wall Street Journal]
The US Department of Justice is probing kickback allegations involving Corey Lewandowski, a Trump ally, linked to contracts at the Department of Homeland Security, amid accusations of bias in investigation practices.