Federal prosecutors charge former OpenAI engineer over alleged eavesdroppingMachine translation

WSJ just reported on this incidence. OpenAI engineer allegedly used the company’s internal AI tool to find where executives met, then bugged that room. Federal prosecutors charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, who had worked as an OpenAI engineer since July 2025, with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications. Cameras then caught him near the executive-only conference room at least 10 times that month, though he had no authorization to enter. OpenAI found the device on September 30, plugged into a USB port on the back of a television and concealed in toilet paper, after it had sat there about 2 days.

truly unbelievable stuff going on. 🤯 FBI arrested a former employee in ​connection with a sophisticated ​listening device found hidden in ⁠one of OpenAI's ​offices. OpenAI says it has no indication so far that the employee accessed or exfiltrated model weights, source code or customer data, yet it hasn’t said what the device itself recorded.