OpenAI pays $3.2 million in US probe over hiring foreign workers

OpenAI and a subsidiary will pay $3.2 million to settle US government claims that they favored foreign workers with temporary employment visas and discriminated against US job applicants in recruiting and hiring, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday.

The Justice Department in a release said that OpenAI and Statsig, which makes product development software, recruited foreign workers ‌for some ⁠open ⁠positions and took various steps to discourage US workers from applying. That included requiring them to ​mail paper…