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An OpenAI engineer, Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested after the company found a hidden recording device in a conference room and referred the matter to the FBI.
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An OpenAI engineer has been charged with acting as a foreign spy after a recording device was found hidden in toilet paper in a top-secret OpenAI meeting room.
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