the story behind why OpenAI fired 3 of its safety researchers is getting MESSIER by the hour: > the 3 have been pushing to keep AI reasoning monitorable > OpenAI suspected them of leaking secret model architecture to a researcher working with METR > bur OpenAI itself brought in METR to investigate the Hugging Face incident > one of the 3 was ASSIGNED to work with them > searched their PERSONAL phones > found disappearing Signal messages > fired all 3 a week later > one of them now accuses…