US charges Saudi OpenAI engineer over alleged office bugging

Federal prosecutors say a 35-year-old OpenAI engineer planted a hidden audio recorder in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco headquarters Federal prosecutors have charged an OpenAI engineer with secretly recording conversations inside the company’s San Francisco headquarters. The alleged method was a covert audio device hidden behind a television in an executive conference room. The engineer is Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old from Saudi Arabia. The case lands at a moment when Washington openly treats advanced AI as a national security asset, and the people building it as potential targets.

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