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FBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device in conference room

It's not clear exactly for what purpose the recording device was used, but FBI director Kash Patel said the scheme was to "capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence technology."

Tarun Mottlia

Via TechCrunch

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FBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device in conference room
Image: Image Credits:OpenAI (surveillance camera)

OpenAI said it has alerted the FBI after discovering that an employee allegedly planted a hidden recording device in one of the AI maker’s office executive conference rooms.

The employee, named by federal prosecutors as Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan, was fired and arrested on October 9, about a week after OpenAI discovered the surveillance device.

The company said in a post on X that it used its internal AI models to understand the “sophisticated” device. OpenAI told TechCrunch that the…

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