WSJ: OpenAI Warns Staff on Honey Pots and Insider Threats, Issues Operational-Security Playbook

The Wall Street Journal reports OpenAI executives have been briefing staff on state-actor espionage tactics including romantic honey pots and insider recruitment, instructing employees to avoid branded apparel, use privacy screens and wipe whiteboards. The warnings follow this month's arrest of a Saudi engineer caught planting a hidden recorder in a conference room and WSJ-documented foreign spy activity targeting San Francisco playgrounds frequented by AI researchers' families.