{"id":1040959,"date":"2026-10-05T10:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040959"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:29:22","slug":"openai-fires-three-researchers-company-confirms-sacking-shares-what-investigations-that-led-to-termination-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/05\/openai-fires-three-researchers-company-confirms-sacking-shares-what-investigations-that-led-to-termination-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI fires three researchers, company confirms sacking; shares what investigations that led to termination revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has terminated three researchers from its safety team after an internal investigation concluded that they violated company policies governing access to and handling of sensitive information, according to a company statement and a Wall Street Journal report. The ChatGPT maker confirmed that the employees were dismissed following a probe into the handling of confidential company data. &#8220;We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information,&#8221; an OpenAI spokesperson said. &#8220;Our investigation confirmed that these individuals mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures, violating our policies and breaking the trust essential to our work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has terminated three researchers from its safety team after an internal investigation concluded that they violated company policies governing access to and handling of sensitive information, according to a company statement and a Wall Street Journal report. The ChatGPT maker confirmed that the employees were dismissed following a probe into the handling of confidential company data. &#8220;We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information,&#8221; an OpenAI spokesperson said. &#8220;Our investigation confirmed that these individuals mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures, violating our policies and breaking the trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040961,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040959\/revisions\/1040961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}