OpenAI Fires Three Safety Staffers as FTC Opens Probe and California AG Subpoenas
A voluntary White House safety accord landed the same week real enforcement signals arrived — and the gap between the two is the story.
AI's self-regulation era is colliding with actual enforcement. @fluxgravitas reports that OpenAI fired three safety staffers and that the FTC has opened a probe, while the California Attorney General has reportedly issued subpoenas to the company. The sequence — dismissals of safety personnel followed by regulatory scrutiny — is the kind of pattern enforcement agencies are built to notice.
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