October 13, 2026TechnologyPolitics·Bearish·security
OpenAI engineer arrested, charged by DOJ for planting recording device in office
The DOJ says a Saudi national, 35-year-old Abdulrahman Alfozan, an OpenAI employee, was arrested and charged with using an electronic device to intercept oral communications after allegedly planting a recording device in an executive conference room at OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters. OpenAI terminated him and says he did not access model weights, source code or customer data.
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OpenAIFederal Bureau of Investigation