OpenAI Engineer Arrested for Allegedly Bugging Executive Conference Room

Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national and OpenAI product-team engineer, was arrested Oct. 9 on a federal charge of allegedly planting a covert listening device in the company's San Francisco executive conference room. OpenAI found the device Sept. 30 and alerted the FBI. Alfozan remains in custody and faces up to five years in prison if convicted.