As the United States embroils itself in a self-inflicted "arms race" with China, tech companies are ratcheting up the paranoia to extreme levels. ChatGPT shepherd OpenAI is reportedly clamping down hard on physical security after it says it was "targeted" by Chinese AI rivals. Per the Financial Times, the company has gone as far as installing fingerprint "biometric access controls" around its offices, as well as electronically-dependent security airlocks, similar to the kind found in industrial cleanrooms. It likewise beefed up "physical security" — presumably meaning security guards — in its datacenters, and beefed up its cybersecurity team. The physical moves […]