Employee Arrested After Listening Device Found in OpenAI Conference Room, FBI and the Company Say

Summary

An OpenAI engineer, Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested Friday and fired after the company found a hidden audio recording device in a conference room, according to a criminal complaint in federal court in San Francisco. He faces a charge of using a device to intercept oral communications, and the complaint says he was near the room on several occasions without authorization.

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