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OpenAI engineer charged over hidden recorder in San Francisco office

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 42 84 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 14 Oct 00:14 UTC · OpenAI engineer charged over covert recording device in executive conference room 14 Oct 06:09 UTC · OpenAI engineer charged over recording device found in conference room 14 Oct 12:10 UTC · OpenAI Engineer Charged Over Hidden Recording Device in San Francisco Office 14 Oct 18:32 UTC · OpenAI engineer charged over hidden recording device in San Francisco office 15 Oct 00:09 UTC · OpenAI engineer charged over hidden recorder in San Francisco office

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 1 HEADLINE

  1. 15 Oct, 00:09 UTC

    OpenAI engineer charged over hidden recorder in San Francisco office

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.