Reports that OpenAI dissolved its Preparedness team and reassigned biosecurity and cyber risk work.

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BREAKING: OpenAI has reportedly disbanded its “Preparedness” team, which was responsible for assessing catastrophic risks from its AI models. The team’s biosecurity and cybersecurity work is being reassigned to existing groups.

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Analyst rationale

Dissolving the unit charged with catastrophic-risk assessment — while an IPO window is discussed — is a governance signal: oversight capacity may be thinning just as capability ratings rise.