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Hidden Recording Device Found in OpenAI Office, Saudi National Arrested

OpenAI said Tuesday, Oct. 13, that it discovered a sophisticated recording device hidden inside one of its offices and used its own artificial intelligence (AI) models to identify the employee who planted it, according to a company statement posted on X. The company said it fired the employee and referred the matter to the Federal […]

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OpenAI's Saudi Employee Arrested After Planting A Recording Device Wrapped Within Toilet PaperEx-Anthropic staffer Coxon had said he was 90% sure spies were inside OpenAI and Anthropic. Now an OpenAI employee faces federal charges.

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Saudi national arrested over alleged planting of recording device at OpenAIStartup espionage has been pursued for far less, but the FBI’s quick work and public rollout of the arrest shows how high the stakes are for the US government and frontier labs.

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