OpenAI Employee Arrested on Suspicion of Planting Hidden Recording Device in Conference Room

TREE NEWS update: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that Abdulrahman Al-Fozan, a Saudi Arabian national employed by OpenAI, was arrested on October 9 after a hidden recording device was discovered behind a television in an executive conference room. Al-Fozan, who joined OpenAI on the product team in July 2025, has been fired and is in federal custody. OpenAI said it found no evidence that he improperly accessed or stole model weights, source code, or customer data, and reported the matter to the FBI.