Good morning. It’s Friday, October 23. End of the week, end of the month almost. Take a breath — you’ve earned it.
OpenAI asked three outspoken safety researchers to unlock their personal phones, found disappearing Signal messages with an outside researcher, and fired all three a week later. The story lands in the middle of a bigger fight over who gets to see how frontier models are built.
Today we are covering:
OpenAI fires three safety researchers after phone checks and disappearing Signal chats
SpaceX reportedly in talks to access about 80,000 cell sites for a wireless network
U.S. banks find unvetted AI agents inside customer accounts and start blocking them
