Rachel Metz

My latest: The OpenAI employee who was arrested and charged with allegedly using a hidden recording device in a company conference room had booked one-way tickets for him and family members from SF to Saudi Arabia for Oct. 12. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-14/arrested-openai-engineer-booked-a-one-way-ticket-to-saudi-arabia?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter

Just updated our story w more deets about the OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly hiding a surveillance device in a company conference room. The FBI criminal complaint says the device was a Seeed Xiao ESP32-S3 Sense; it’s $14 on https://seeedstudio.com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-13/openai-says-staffer-arrested-for-hidden-recording-device-in-office

This is a wild one from me, @eastland_maggie, and @jordanr1000: Anthropic accused China’s Moonshot AI of covertly routing thousands of user requests to Claude models and passing off the responses as its own. Moonshot declined to comment. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/moonshot-secretly-routed-user-requests-through-claude-anthropic-says?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter

There’s a lot going on in AI right now, so @daveyalba and I dug into how the rising rhetoric around existential risk is shaping the debate over AI. Gift link — please give it a read. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-17/existential-angst-dominates-debate-over-tech-from-anthropic-openai?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4OTY4NDk3MiwiZXhwIjoxNzkwMjg5NzcyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTElUNkhLR0NURlQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyMjNDRDM2NDg0QzY0OTc3QjY5ODE0Rjc1MTYxNDRGNyJ9.lKvvGSBQUAG6vjYhkoYF6Ue5mce67A-IWUjmgAYPxvY

My favorite pantry lunch is grinding fresh peanut butter and spreading it on a toasted bagel with salt and honey. 🤤

New scoop from me: @flappyairplanes is now valued at $6B with a new $1B funding round, and they’ve been working on ways to make AI more efficient (including an effort to squeeze more performance out of investor @nvidia’s GPUs). Gift link below. 🍦 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-21/ai-research-startup-flapping-airplanes-valued-at-6-billion-in-round?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MjYwMjEzMywiZXhwIjoxNzkzMjA2OTMzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTjlPSzFLSVVQU1UwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyMjNDRDM2NDg0QzY0OTc3QjY5ODE0Rjc1MTYxNDRGNyJ9.2ECQs48uRgaUOE9dkbaIGZ556qBFOPomk4VxMDMXvHE

OpenAI leadership shakeup scoop from @dinabass 👀👀

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I took over Q&AI today to bring you a dispatch from the world of math as AI is making many mathematicians think about the future of their profession. Thank you @ProfNoahGian for your insights and generosity with your valuable time. Gift link!⬇️ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-10-08/openai-s-math-advances-spark-a-reckoning-for-academia?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MTQ5NTUxMSwiZXhwIjoxNzkyMTAwMzExLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTUxZRTFLSVAzSjcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyMjNDRDM2NDg0QzY0OTc3QjY5ODE0Rjc1MTYxNDRGNyJ9.Zw83vIZpMGla4A92GVAeF02rhyOSs-5oH5t-V8mI_tU

still waiting btw

in court today, during a detention hearing for the OpenAI engineer charged with bugging a company office, his lawyers told the judge that electronic devices found at his home were used for, among other things, making a smart litter box for the family cat. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-19/doj-calls-for-detaining-openai-engineer-citing-saudi-ties?srnd=phx-technology

If only all hallucinations could be hamster hallucinations