Former OpenAI Engineer Pleads Not Guilty to Planting Covert Device in Executive Meeting Room

Summary

A former OpenAI engineer, Abdulrahman Alfozan, pleaded not guilty in San Francisco federal court to a single count of interception of oral communications. Prosecutors allege he placed a sophisticated recording device in an executive OpenAI conference room, and he has been held without bail since his October 9, 2026 arrest.

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