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FBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device in conference room
Publisher description: The FBI arrested a Saudi national who worked at OpenAI on the product team. The AI maker accused the employee of hiding a recording device in an executive conference room.
TechCrunch | Oct 13, 2026 | Zack Whittaker
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OpenAI said it has alerted the FBI after discovering that an employee allegedly planted a hidden recording device in one of the AI maker’s office executive conference rooms. The employee, named by federal prosecutors as Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan, was fired and arrested on October 9, about a week after OpenAI discovered the surveillance device. Per the prosecutors, Alfozan was caught looking behind the television where the recording device was placed, and where OpenAI had placed a camera that allegedly caught the employee.
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