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OpenAI Fired Its Safety Staff, Then Cited Its Auditors

OpenAI Fired Its Safety Staff, Then Cited Its Auditors OpenAI fired three safety researchers in the first week of October 2026 -- Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni -- for allegedly…

  • OpenAI fired three safety researchers in October 2026.
  • Tomek Korbak, a technical liaison to METR, was among the fired.
  • Firings questioned legal protection for sensitive info sharing.

I Built WanderWise: A Local-First AI Planner That Wants You to Close the Screen

Most AI products compete for more attention. I wanted to build one whose definition of success is getting closed. WanderWise AI turns a sentence such as “I need a calm reset after work and I have one…

  • WanderWise AI creates concise outdoor plans from brief sentences.
  • Requires only five user inputs: activity type, time, companions, weather, energy level.
  • Open-source model runs locally for privacy and offline functionality.

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