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FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI employee for allegedly bugging San Francisco office

OpenAI FBI Abdulrahman Alfozan San Francisco US Justice Department Artificial Intelligence Jay Clayton Humain

Surveillance footage shows Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan looking behind a television where a recording device had been placed at OpenAI's San Francisco office October 5, 2026 — Surveillance footage shows Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan looking behind a television where a recording device had been placed at OpenAI's San Francisco office October 5, 2026. © Department of Justice via Reuters

The FBI said on Wednesday it has arrested a Saudi national employed as an engineer at OpenAI on suspicions that he had bugged a conference room at the company's San Francisco office with a "sophisticated recording device".

A Saudi employee of OpenAI was arrested after allegedly planting a recording device in one of the company's San Francisco offices, the AI firm and federal prosecutors said Tuesday, amid a global race to dominate in artificial intelligence.

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