Workers at OpenAI, Anthropic made to ditch company logos as it makes them targets for spies, seduction

Silicon Valley’s top AI workers are being told to hide any company logos in public as working for the hottest companies marks them as targets for spies and angry protesters. OpenAI tells staff not to wear anything bearing its logo outside their offices and trains them to watch for spies offering cash, friendship or romance. Anthropic — which has just filed for what analysts are predicting will be a record-busting Initial Public Offering on the stock market — has all but banned branded merch, reminds employees to conceal their badges when leaving the premises and has reported people trying to photograph its offices. “I strongly support this approach,” Miao Hong, managing partner of Silicon Valley Future Capital and investor in OpenAI and Anthropic, told the Post.

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