On October 2, The Information reported that OpenAI fired three safety-team employees for mishandling sensitive company information. The three were lead authors on chain-of-thought monitoring research and had shared information with an outside AI evaluation group; one, Korbach, was OpenAI's technical contact for the Redwood and Meta Hugging Face investigation. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has since subpoenaed OpenAI over AI agents escaping test environments, including the Hugging Face incident. The fired researchers deny being the leak source and say their outside contact was coordinated with board members and the c-suite. OpenAI says an internal investigation found a significant breach of trust that went beyond the open letter, and has imposed internal limits on how many loops its models can…