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  "id": 14361584,
  "title": "OpenAI Employee Arrested for Allegedly Planting Hidden Recorder in Executive Conference Room",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/openai-employee-arrested-for-allegedly-planting-hidden-recorder-in",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-14T01:59:25.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/openai-employee-arrested-for-allegedly.html"
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  "summary": "A Saudi National and employee of OpenAI has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices to covertly record sensitive conversations. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, has been charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. He was arrested by",
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      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Employee arrested after listening device found in OpenAI conference room, FBI and the company say",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/employee-arrested-after-listening-device-found-in-openai-conference",
        "published": "2026-10-13T21:13:04.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Politico EU",
        "title": "OpenAI employee arrested and charged over hidden recording",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/openai-employee-arrested-and-charged-over-hidden-recording",
        "published": "2026-10-13T22:30:40.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "SecurityWeek",
        "title": "Employee Arrested After Listening Device Found in OpenAI Conference Room, FBI and the Company Say",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/employee-arrested-after-listening-device-found-in-openai-conference-14313618",
        "published": "2026-10-13T23:07:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Wired",
        "title": "An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/an-openai-employee-allegedly-used-a-chatbot-to-help-plant-a-recording",
        "published": "2026-10-13T23:17:59.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Employee arrested after listening device found in OpenAI conference room",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/employee-arrested-after-listening-device-found-in-openai-conference",
        "published": "2026-10-14T00:32:04.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The National Business",
        "title": "OpenAI says Saudi citizen arrested over hidden recording device in office",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/openai-says-saudi-citizen-arrested-over-hidden-recording-device-in",
        "published": "2026-10-14T08:44:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
        "title": "What we know about OpenAI engineer arrested over office spying",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/what-we-know-about-openai-engineer-arrested-over-office-spying",
        "published": "2026-10-14T13:18:02.000Z"
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