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- U.S. prosecutors arrested Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan for planting a recorder in OpenAI’s San Francisco conference room.
- Alfozan messaged an unnamed Saudi royal who urged him to join a Saudi AI project.
- He placed the recorder in a TV USB port on Sept 28, 2026, and left it for days.
- Alfozan faces up to five years imprisonment and possible detention without bail.