OpenAI Hires xAI Sales Executive as Anthropic Pushes AI Safety Bill

OpenAI has hired Graham Seamans, a former xAI sales executive, to lead sales for its cybersecurity business. The appointment marks the third major sales hire from SpaceX-linked companies in nearly a month, according to Bloomberg. Seamans joined xAI in August 2025 and helped sell its Grok chatbot to enterprise customers, with Wall Street firms as a key target. Before that, he spent about eight years at database company MongoDB, where he held senior sales positions in the US and Northern Europe. Brian McCarthy joined OpenAI in September 2026, followed by Ismail Elmas in early October. .Federal Oversight for Advanced AI.Separately, Anthropic gave US lawmakers a confidential draft bill that would let the federal government intervene in the deployment of advanced AI models facing imminent catastrophic risks, Politico reported on October…

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