Prosecutors say the device, wrapped in toilet paper, was found inserted in a USB port on the back of a TV in an executive conference room.

A Saudi national has been charged with secretly planting a recording device in one of OpenAI’s offices in California, federal prosecutors announced.

Abdulrahman Alfozan, who worked at the AI firm as an engineer, was charged federally with using or endeavouring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications.

OpenAI said it had discovered a “sophisticated recording device” hidden in their San Francisco office and alerted the FBI. The company said it used its AI models to track that it had been planted by an employee.

  • kreskin
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    24 days ago

    Saudis were messing around inside twitter too, a long while back-- using it to hunt for dissidents. That government really is a bunch of evil little shits. We should not be military allies with them.