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OpenAI Safety Employee Resigns Over Its ‘Broken’ Culture: What Nuclear Safety Culture Would Demand

David Robinson resigned from OpenAI saying its culture is broken and that frontier AI labs should run like nuclear power plants. We set out what nuclear safety culture actually involves: the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl lessons, the NRC’s nine traits, resident inspectors, one-hour reporting clocks, whistleblower law, the Davis-Besse failure, what AI labs have instead, and where the comparison breaks down.

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An OpenAI Safety Employee Has Quit and Is Sounding the Alarm

David Robinson, who led safety transparency work on OpenAI’s Safety Systems team and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches, has resigned and written in The Atlantic that the company’s culture is broken. We set out what he wrote, the Hugging Face and DNS incidents he points to, what he wants labs to copy from nuclear plants and airports, how OpenAI has replied, and what the debate means for businesses that build on frontier AI.

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OpenAI Cuts Ties With 3 Safety Researchers: WSJ Names Them and a METR Link Emerges

The Wall Street Journal has named the three researchers OpenAI dismissed for allegedly sharing confidential information with an outside AI safety organisation: Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni. One of them was OpenAI’s technical contact for METR’s independent investigation of the Hugging Face hack. We set out who the three are, what the METR link does and does not show, how outside investigators get access to a lab, and what the case means for oversight and for businesses using OpenAI.

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OpenAI Cuts Ties With 3 Safety Researchers, WSJ Reports

OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team who allegedly shared confidential information with an outside AI safety organisation, The Wall Street Journal reported on 1 October 2026. We set out what is known and not known, the 2024 precedents, the run of agent incidents behind the story, what whistleblower law protects in California and the UK, and what it means for businesses using OpenAI.

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Wallet Feature Spotted in ChatGPT App as World App Rebrands

A Wallet entry marked Coming soon has appeared in the ChatGPT app, beside Passwords and Finances, on the same day World App was renamed World Money. We set out what was spotted, what August code showed about card enrolment for agent tasks, why a ChatGPT Wallet fits Dots, what World Money is, and whether the two are linked.

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Brian Chesky Interview: AI Agents Need Their Own Operating System

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky told TechCrunch that consumer AI will not work until someone builds a true AI operating system, with a full developer kit that turns every app into an interoperable agent. We explain what he said about Muse, Instinct and ChatGPT’s app store, what such a platform would need, who is closest to building it, and what businesses should prepare now.

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Here’s How Tech Leaders Will Self-Police AI Safety Under Trump’s Deal

Trump’s AI safety accord asks each company for internal controls, an internal team, an outside auditor and a board committee. The structure copies Sarbanes-Oxley but drops the standards body, certifications and penalties. Four of six signatories had already broken rule one, the FTC’s new probe reaches the evaluators, and buyers now have questions to ask.

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