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Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained in Spy Device Case as Saudi Royal Contacts Emerge

The Hacker News · article · Oct 20, 2026 · UTC

A U.S. court on Monday granted the U.S. government's request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco office to allegedly steal sensitive secrets. In a new court filing Sunday, prosecutors revealed that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national, was "in frequent communications via WhatsApp

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