OpenAI employee charged after hidden recorder found in executive room
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A Saudi OpenAI employee has been arrested and charged in the US with attempting to intercept oral communications after a recording device was found in an executive conference room. Wrapped in tissue paper, the device was plugged into a USB port behind a television; OpenAI said no model weights, source code or customer data were taken.
Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI staffer charged with bugging a conference room, used a Seeed Xiao ESP32-S3 Sense dev board; a website sells it for $14 (Bloomberg).
US Justice Department says a Saudi national was arrested for installing a surreptitious audio recording device at a San Francisco Super Intelligence Company.confirmed
Federal prosecutors say a Saudi national was arrested over bugging an OpenAI executive conference room; OpenAI found the audio recorder around September 30 (The San Francisco Standard).
OpenAI says the FBI arrested one of its staffers after the company found a hidden recording device in its offices and used its models to identify who placed it.confirmed
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