October 13, 2026
An OpenAI engineer was arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to secretly record confidential conversations inside the artificial intelligence company’s San Francisco offices, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national who had worked for the ChatGPT maker since July 2025, was arrested Friday after company security personnel discovered a concealed […]
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An OpenAI engineer was arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to secretly record confidential conversations inside the artificial intelligence company’s San Francisco offices, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national who had worked for the ChatGPT maker since July 2025, was arrested Friday after company security personnel discovered a concealed recording device in an executive conference room.

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