{"type":"post","id":"congress-of-the-united-states-washington-dc-20515-1b3ce2","slug":"congress-of-the-united-states-washington-dc-20515-1b3ce2","title":"Congress of the United States Washington, DC 20515","description":"Summary Members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent OpenAI CEO Sam Altman an October 29 letter demanding answers about three safety researchers’ firings and the company’s response to security incidents. They ask OpenAI to protect safety whistleblowers and keep","retrieval_nugget":"Members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent OpenAI CEO Sam Altman an October 29 letter demanding answers about three safety researchers’ firings and the company’s response to security incidents. They ask OpenAI to protect safety whistleblowers and keep a pause on its most capable models until independent oversight exists, putting a November 13 response deadline on the dispute.","published_at":"2026-11-06","updated_at":"2026-11-06","record_date":"2026-11-06","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["agent-security"],"entities":["OpenAI","Sam Altman","Tomek Korbak","Mikita Balesni","Jasmine Wang","Ryan Greenblatt","Redwood Research","United States House of Representatives"],"related_patterns":["agent-security-moves-to-runtime-boundaries"],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"A congressional follow-up letter demands OpenAI protect safety whistleblowers and maintain its pause on top models until independent oversight is in place.","prior_refs":["https://newruntime.com/posts/openai-defends-firing-three-safety-researchers-citing-breach-6d1e2f/"],"source_url":"https://casar.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/casar.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/openai-employee-firing_cyber-security-follow-up_0.pdf","source_urls":["https://casar.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/casar.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/openai-employee-firing_cyber-security-follow-up_0.pdf"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:congress-of-the-united-states-washington-dc-20515-1b3ce2","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/congress-of-the-united-states-washington-dc-20515-1b3ce2/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/congress-of-the-united-states-washington-dc-20515-1b3ce2.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/congress-of-the-united-states-washington-dc-20515-1b3ce2.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/congress-of-the-united-states-washington-dc-20515-1b3ce2.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/agent-security/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-security/","title":"Agent Security","reason":"Explore the agent-security topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-security.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-security.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}