[AINews] not much happened today latent.space

OpenAI safety researchers Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang say they were fired after raising concerns about AI safety and the company’s work with evaluator METR; OpenAI reportedly says they mishandled confidential information. The roundup also reports releases including OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast and Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5, alongside new research and benchmark findings on agent safety, model performance and infrastructure.