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OpenAI staffer accused of planting recording device says he had no plan to flee US

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OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan has sought bail in a US court over allegations of hiding a recording device in an executive meeting room, denying that his one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia was part…

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