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Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained After Planting Secret Recorder at HQ

By Alexander Culafi, Dark Reading

Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained After Planting Secret Recorder at HQ

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A judge ordered that Abdulrahman Alfozan be detained after he was arrested earlier this month for allegedly bugging an OpenAI conference room.

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