OpenAI employee charged with planting covert recording device in executive conference room, allegedly using AI chatbots to plan it
Federal prosecutors charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and US permanent resident who joined OpenAI in July 2025, with using a device to intercept oral communications. He allegedly planted a covert audio recorder in an executive-only conference room no later than 28 September 2026. OpenAI's countersurveillance sweep …