The FBI arrested an OpenAI employee from Saudi Arabia on charges that he hid a covert listening device inside the company’s executive conference room to spy on the AI giant’s inner workings.
\n\nCNBC reports that the DOJ announced Tuesday that Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, was arrested October 9 in connection with a hidden recording device found in a conference room used by OpenAI executives. OpenAI believes the device had been planted only a few days before it was discovered, and credited federal investigators for swift action: the FBI “moved quickly to make an arrest.”
\n\nAlfozan has since been fired from OpenAI. He also holds a listed role as a partner at Raed Ventures, a Riyadh-based venture capital firm focused on investments in the Middle East and North Africa. Raed Ventures did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
\n\nFBI Director Kash Patel said Alfozan “allegedly concealed a covert recording device inside his employer’s executive conference room to secretly capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence technology.”
\n\nAccording to the DOJ, Alfozan was not authorized to enter the conference room where the device was found. Building footage reportedly showed him near the room on multiple occasions in…
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