OpenAI engineering lead arrested by FBI for planting recorder in exec conference room
ns123abc · x · 2026-10-14
ns123abc reports that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old MIT-educated OpenAI engineering lead (ex-Meta, ex-Nash), was arrested by the FBI after hiding a covert audio recorder in an executive conference room at OpenAI HQ. He has been terminated and made his first federal court appearance. OpenAI's newsroom confirmed the device was found and said its own models helped trace it to the employee; observers mocked the "sophisticated" label since it was an off-the-shelf ESP32 board.
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