Protecting AI technology from state-level actors is considered a high priority for the U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has, for instance, floated the idea of sanctioning China over alleged distillation, a way of copying the functionality of AI models that requires minimal secrecy, let alone any sort of bugging of an OpenAI office.

Saudi OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan was arrested after a covert recording device was allegedly planted in an executive conference room.

Twice as many companies use OpenAI's agent orchestration platform as Anthropic's, VentureBeat Intelligence found in its September survey on agent orchestration. OpenAI holds that lead even though Anthropic may lead OpenAI on other important indicators.