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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 Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national. Alfozan is charged with using or endeavoring to use a device to intercept…
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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 Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national. Alfozan is charged with using or endeavoring to use a device to intercept oral communications, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.
OpenAI’s post about the incident says it used its AI models to “understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier.”
<img src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-10-13-at-5.24.10-PM.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,0,100,100" alt="" title="" data-has-syndication-rights="1" data-caption="The recording device recovered from a TV in OpenAI's office. | Image: US Department of Justice” data-portal-copyright=”Image: US Department of Justice”>
As noted by the DOJ, OpenAI found the device plugged into a TV’s USB port in an executiv …
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