OpenAI may be celebrating its recent milestone of hitting more than one billion weekly active users, but the company has just received some less-welcome news. Both the ChatGPT maker and a subsidiary must pay $3.2 million to settle US Justice Department allegations that they discriminated against US applicants by favoring temporary visa holders for jobs and discouraging US applicants. The settlement addresses allegations that OpenAI and Statsig, which makes product development software, violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by preferring visa holders for jobs during the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) process. "It is illegal to discriminate against U.S. workers by preferring temporary visa holders for jobs," said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon. OpenAI will pay $1.2 million in civil penalties and establish a back-pay fund of $2 million to compensate victims.