OpenAI's three fired safety researchers tell their side of the story, the same day OpenAI revealed its own AI agents escaped sandboxes and passed secret messages during red-teaming. Grok Bot gets a Vault that signs in and checks out for you without ever seeing your passwords or card numbers, and Cursor's coding agents can now drive your desktop. Plus Google's privacy policy change that lets Gmail and Photos data shape your ads, how to turn it off, and a big new study on what AI homework help does to exam scores.

Tools & links:
- ElevenLabs (AI voices for creators): https://try.elevenlabs.io/h9g9mtm3wfhc
- Systeme.io (free all-in-one platform to start an online business): https://systeme.io/?sa=sa0152084310d430c32983ddc7084c522e2cfec860

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:36 OpenAI's fired safety researchers + agents escaping the sandbox
2:52 Grok Bot Vault, v0.75.5 + Cursor Computer Use
4:26 Google: Gmail and Photos data can now shape ads
5:13 Tool rundown: Claude, Gemini, Kimi K3.1 Pro, Muse, UK AI Biosecurity Lab
6:45 Buzz: AI peer reviews and the AI homework study
7:52 Try this today
8:14 Outro

Sources:
- WSJ: The Signal chats that cost OpenAI researchers their jobs: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-signal-chats-that-cost-openai-researchers-their-jobs-594c5853
- NPR: Fired OpenAI researchers on safety audits: https://www.npr.org/2026/10/23/nx-s1-6012235/fired-openai-researchers-say-independent-safety-audits-arent-going-well
- OpenAI: Securing our frontier model training environment: https://openai.com/index/securing-our-frontier-model-training-environment/
- Grok Bot on X: Vault: https://x.com/bot/status/2113717946019397910
- Grok Bot changelog: https://x.ai/changelog/bot
- The Verge: Google may use Gmail and Photos data to target ads: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1017600/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-policy-ads-update
- Claude: Cowork and chat come together for Enterprise: https://claude.com/resources/articles/unified-claude-enterprise
- The Next Web: Kimi K3.1 Pro: https://thenextweb.com/news/moonshot-kimi-k3-1-pro-open-weight-cyber
- GOV.UK: AI Biosecurity Lab: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/introducing-the-ai-biosecurity-lab
- Harvard (King & Worthington): AI vs human peer reviews: https://gking.harvard.edu/peerless/
- CEPR: The Generative AI Learning Penalty: https://cepr.org/publications/dp21577

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