OpenAI's Vice President of Product Policy, Ryan Beiermeister, was reportedly fired in January following a sex discrimination claim made by a male colleague, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Beiermeister's termination came after she voiced criticism of a planned "adult mode" for ChatGPT, which would introduce erotica into the chatbot's user experience, the Journal reported. Meanwhile, xAI co-founder Tony Wu announced his resignation late Monday night, marking the latest departure of a senior executive from Elon Musk's AI company.
Beiermeister denied the discrimination allegation, telling the Wall Street Journal that the claim was "absolutely false." TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI for comment and also contacted an email associated with Beiermeister, but neither had responded at the time of publication. The Verge reported that OpenAI is updating ChatGPT's deep research tool with a full-screen viewer, allowing users to scroll through and navigate specific areas of its AI-generated reports.
Wu, in a social media post, expressed positive sentiments about his time at xAI, but stated it was time for his "next chapter." He wrote that "a small team armed with AIs can move mountains and redefine whats possible." Ars Technica noted that xAI had approximately 1,200 employees as of March 2025, including AI engineers and those focused on the X social network. The mention of a small team could hint at a potential reason for Wu's departure, according to the publication.
In other news, Wikipedia editors are considering blacklisting Archive.today after the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger, Ars Technica reported. The editors are presented with three options: remove or hide all Archive.today links and add the site to the spam blacklist, deprecate Archive.today, or maintain the status quo.
Additionally, The Verge reported that demonstrators held a rally outside The Washington Post headquarters in Washington, D.C., to protest layoffs.
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