OpenAI Engineer Arrested Over Alleged Bugging of Executive Room

OpenAI product-team engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, was arrested Oct. 9 on a federal charge alleging he planted a hidden listening device — a covert bug — in the company's San Francisco executive conference room. OpenAI discovered it Sept. 30 and contacted the FBI. He remains in custody and faces up to five years if convicted.