20 October 2026
Former OpenAI engineer accused of hiding recorder in conference room denied release
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- Abdulrahman Alfozan, a former OpenAI engineer, is charged with hiding an audio recorder in a conference room he was not authorized to enter.
- Prosecutors say his family left the U.S. the day after his arrest on a one-way ticket paid for by a Saudi military official.
- A federal judge in San Francisco denied his request for home confinement, and his next court date is in November.
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Reported by Fast Company, The New York Times, Wired