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Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device appears to have Saudi backing, cou

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20 Oct
Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained in Spy Device Case as Saudi Royal Contacts Emerge

A U.S. court on Monday granted the U.S. government's request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the

REPORT · HOW · The Hacker NewsOPEN STORY
14 Oct
Saudi national charged with allegedly installing a hidden recording device at OpenAI…OpenAI used its internal AI models to identify Alfozan and trace the device's origins.

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14 Oct
OpenAI Employee Arrested for Allegedly Planting Hidden Recorder in Executive Conference Room

A Saudi national and employee of OpenAI has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices

REPORT · HOW · The Hacker NewsOPEN STORY
13 Oct
OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting spy device in office

A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices to secretly

REPORT · WHAT · BleepingComputerOPEN STORY
14 Oct
Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national employed as an OpenAI engineer, looks behind a television where a recording device had been placed at a conference room in OpenAI offices. He was arrested by the FBI.

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OPINION · WHERE · OpenAIOPEN STORY
19 Oct
Former OpenAI engineer charged with wiretapping remanded in custody

<p>Former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan has been denied bail while awaiting trial on charges of using an eavesdropping device to record internal meetings.</p> <p>Federal

REPORT · HOW · Dev.toOPEN STORY
13 Oct
OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room

An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman

REPORT · WHO · The Verge TechOPEN STORY
20 Oct
Evidence showed that the former OpenAI employee had been chatting with a member of the Saudi royal family on WhatsApp while pursuing opportunities to permanently move back to Saudi Arabia during the c

Evidence showed that the former OpenAI employee had been chatting with a member of the Saudi royal family on WhatsApp while pursuing opportunities to permanently move back to

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