Sam Biddle

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[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

The documents I obtained include an OpenAI contract with the Pentagon requiring that the military AI it sold to Hegseth would maximally comply with the military's commands. The story behind this doc became very strange (thread)

https://t.co/Dhdt7BTPDr

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

🚨Bombshell story by Matthew Cole about Jared Kushner from Cole’s book, Princes and Thieves, which comes out next week.

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers

https://t.co/BvraBHEA94

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

This is huge.

A just-released SEC filing makes an extraordinary revelation: Mark Zuckerberg is getting ready to pay California’s 5% billionaire wealth tax and has signed an agreement to remain in California for 8 years.

We are witnessing a global turning point unfold before our eyes. 🧵

[Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman]

The Pentagon is thinking expansively about conducting “economic warfare,” particularly against China. Now, it’s mulling a new or expanded deep-cover spying capability as part of that mission.

NEW from me and @wstrobel:

https://t.co/nfncln9j2q

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

DeepMind engineer Sofia Liguori just resigned from Google in protest of the company's Pentagon contract. I interviewed her about her decision and the future of worker dissent: https://t.co/j84lufuWoe

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

NEW: I uncovered details of an Army project codenamed ECHOTRIBBLE, which will send out AI agents "with minimal human oversight" to delete data and disable targeted computers. What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/REYkrdTMzU

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

NEW: I uncovered details of an Army project codenamed ECHOTRIBBLE, which will send out AI agents "with minimal human oversight" to delete data and disable targeted computers. What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/REYkrdTMzU

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

To have been a fly on the wall when the lawyers landed on 50 as the number

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Woah woah woah. The lead is buried in paragraph four.

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

You Can See Everything is one of the best and most genuinely shocking films I've seen in a very long time. Don't read anything about it at all before you see it.

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

@Tanvim agree

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

%$&*!!! whoa.
This reads that Meta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - once a company uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services after October 30, 2026. So every biz.
Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

[Justin Baragona @justinbaragona]

Good on the reporter here for steamrolling past that staffer for trying to move on from the measles question.

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

There's a word for "screening" the news!

[Natalie Korach @NatalieKorach]

Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes report on extremist Israeli settlers underwent a contentious screening process at the Bari Weiss-led CBS News, leading the veteran correspondent to privately express the possibility of quitting the show

Scoop from @oliverdarcy

https://t.co/CefgV3z689

[Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️ @Knibbs]

forget the prediction markets stuff, THIS is probably the real big insider trading scandal we should be paying attention: https://t.co/E0VI84htYP

[slommy @sammichluvrrr]

Notice how he’s minding his business and enjoying the film while you’re taking photos of strangers

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

Crazy WSJ data. Between 2022 and 2025, wealth increased 37% for Americans 75 and older, while **decreased** 23% for people under 35.
https://t.co/g8hUUtWs66

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

one of the better YouTube thumbnails I've been served up lately

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

You caught me. The CIA planted me at a local news station in Denver 20 years ago and made me do years worth of stories on snowstorms and rodeos so that I could drop this one report in 2026 quoting Tina Peters' attorney talking about civil war.

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

@willystaley there used to be a normal amount and then they messed it all up

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

This is a lot of writing saying almost nothing. OpenAI should at least disclose what "clear policies on handling sensitive information" these employees allegedly violated. But this also seems intended to just chill internal dissent/whistleblowing.

[OpenAI Newsroom @OpenAINewsroom]

A note from our research leaders:

Last week we parted ways with Jasmine, Mikita, and Tomek after a thorough investigation found they violated clear policies on handling sensitive information. Our internal investigation uncovered a significant breach of trust beyond what’s outlined in the letter they published and we stand by the decision to not continue their employment. We generally keep individual employment matters private and don't believe a back and forth would be productive or lead to a resolution, but we want to address the points they raised in their letter directly.

- We want to be very clear that these decisions were not about raising safety concerns or speaking out. Safety and research debates happen every day at OpenAI, often spirited and highly critical. We actively encourage these discussions and consider them essential to making the right decisions. We cannot do the work in front of us without a high degree of trust. We will continue to be extremely forgiving of our team making good-faith mistakes. We have not and do not terminate any of our employees for raising concerns.

- We are actively finalizing contracts with third-party safety assessors and will announce details in the coming weeks. People across the company have been working really hard on getting these partnerships up and running. We are committed to embedding external assessors and continue to make close collaboration with independent safety organizations a core part of our safety work. Many of our researchers already work with 3p safety organizations productively.

- We agree with the letter that preserving the monitorability of frontier models requires an industry-wide commitment, including from OpenAI. Monitorability has long been a core piece of our research program, and something we continue to invest significant resources in (see our publications on Monitoring Monitorability and the subsequent open sourcing of monitorability evals, our system card for GPT-6 Astra, Jakub’s blog and post on X, and the numerous blog posts on our Alignment blog on the topic).

We are deeply sad about this outcome. We appreciated Jasmine, Mikita, and Tomek’s contributions to AI safety at OpenAI and their willingness to speak up and challenge ideas. We championed their voices, supported their work, and placed enormous trust in them. These decisions were not about them raising safety concerns. We have always encouraged that and always will.