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Saturday, April 26, with three tech news headlines. It all starts now. Kai Chen, a Canadian

AI researcher working at OpenAI, who's lived in the U.S. for 12 years,

was denied a green card, according to Nome Brown, a leading research scientist at the company.

In a post on X. Brown said that Chen learned of the decision Friday and must soon leave the country.

Another OpenAI employee, Dylan Hun, said in a post that Chen was crucial for GPT

4.5, one of OpenAI's flagship AI models. Green cards can be denied for all sorts of reasons,

and the decision won't cost Chen her job. In a follow-up post, Brown said that Chen plans to work

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