Ex-OpenAI worker accused of planting device had Saudi support says court filing

Summary

US prosecutors charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national who worked at OpenAI for about a year, with secretly planting an audio recorder in a meeting room. A court filing alleges he had considerable support from the Saudi government, and that a Saudi military official paid for his wife and son's one-way flight to Doha after his arrest. The FBI investigation is ongoing, and a conviction carries a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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