OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly bugging conference room

U.S. federal agents arrested Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and OpenAI engineer, for allegedly planting a listening device inside an executive conference room at the company headquarters in San Francisco. The Department of Justice announced the charges on Tuesday after company security personnel discovered the concealed recording device. Alfozan, who had been employed by the ChatGPT maker since July 2025, was arrested Friday for attempting to secretly record confidential conversations within the artificial intelligence firm's offices.