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OpenAI Engineer Arrested for Bugging Office

A Saudi national working at OpenAI, Abdulrahman Alfozan, has been arrested for allegedly hiding an encrypted audio recorder in one of the company's executive conference rooms in San Francisco. OpenAI's AI models helped trace the device back to him. The Justice Department identified Alfozan as the suspect, who was arrested on October 9 and charged with intercepting oral communications. Security cameras caught him near the room on several dates before the discovery. The company terminated Alfozan's employment and said its security program is built to defend against sophisticated threats, including from insiders.

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