tl;dr: Three fired OpenAI safety researchers—Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni—published an open letter disputing OpenAI's claim that they mishandled sensitive information, arguing their dismissals are chilling internal safety culture and third-party collaboration. OpenAI maintains the firings followed an investigation revealing a "pattern of misconduct" unrelated to safety whistleblowing, while Wang says she was terminated over accidentally opening an executive's email she had legitimate delegated access to. The researchers denied leaking information to The Information about OpenAI's less-monitorable new model architectures and called on the company to honor commitments to external safety auditing.