OpenAI engineer fired and charged over alleged listening device in executive conference room

ABC News reports fired OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan faces a federal charge of using or trying to use a device to intercept oral communications. An FBI affidavit alleges he inserted a listening device into a TV’s USB port in an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco headquarters. OpenAI says it has no indications he accessed or exfiltrated model weights, source code or customer data.