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FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI employee who allegedly planted recording device in conference room
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The Department of Justice says Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, was arrested on Oct. 9 after a recording device was found in OpenAI's executive conference room. He was not authorized to enter that room, and footage showed him near it on multiple days. OpenAI said it has no indications that model weights, source code or customer data were accessed, and that the employee was terminated.
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