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OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room

Global Published 14 October 2026, 01:45 · archived 13 Oct 2026

An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee, 35-year-old Abdulrahman Alfozan, is charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications, according to a report from The San Francisco Standard. OpenAI's post about the incident says […]

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