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  "title": "Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI staffer charged with bugging a conference room, used a Seeed Xiao ESP32-S3 Sense dev board; a website sells it for $14 (Bloomberg)",
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        "outlet": "Free Press Journal",
        "title": "Saudi Engineer Arrested For Allegedly Planting Recording Device In OpenAI Executive Conference Room, Faces Up To Five Years In Prison",
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