OpenAI Finds Hidden Recording Device in Office, Refers Matter to FBI

The detail that OpenAI's own models were used to identify the device's provenance and the employee is the operative fact: it suggests internal AI tooling is now part of physical security forensics, not just product. The explicit carve-out that no model weights, source code or customer data were improperly accessed is clearly aimed at partners and regulators who treat frontier labs as critical infrastructure. Whether the FBI referral produces charges, and whether other labs adopt comparable counter-surveillance, is the open question.