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  "id": 14383380,
  "title": "FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI employee for allegedly bugging San Francisco office",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/fbi-arrests-saudi-openai-employee-for-allegedly-bugging-san-francisco-14383380",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-13T23:49:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "France 24",
    "slug": "france-24",
    "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20261013-fbi-arrests-saudi-openai-employee-for-allegedly-bugging-san-francisco-office"
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  "summary": "The FBI said on Wednesday it has arrested a Saudi national employed as an engineer at OpenAI on suspicions that he had bugged a conference room at the company's San Francisco office with a \"sophisticated recording device\".",
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        "outlet": "CBS News",
        "title": "OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly bugging conference room",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/openai-employee-arrested-for-allegedly-bugging-conference-room",
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        "title": "FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI employee for allegedly bugging San Francisco office",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/fbi-arrests-saudi-openai-employee-for-allegedly-bugging-san-francisco",
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        "outlet": "CNBC World",
        "title": "FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI employee who allegedly planted recording device in conference room",
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        "published": "2026-10-14T00:13:45.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Times of India",
        "title": "Saudi OpenAI engineer arrested for planting hidden device to record executive meetings",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/saudi-openai-engineer-arrested-for-planting-hidden-device-to-record",
        "published": "2026-10-14T02:09:41.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
        "title": "Saudi-born engineer for OpenAI arrested for planting listening bug",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/saudi-born-engineer-for-openai-arrested-for-planting-listening-bug",
        "published": "2026-10-14T04:16:13.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Hindu - Sci-Tech",
        "title": "OpenAI fires employee after finding recording device in conference room",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/openai-fires-employee-after-finding-recording-device-in-conference",
        "published": "2026-10-14T06:09:53.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Punch",
        "title": "Saudi man arrested over hidden recorder at OpenAI office",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/saudi-man-arrested-over-hidden-recorder-at-openai-office",
        "published": "2026-10-14T06:50:55.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Daily Times",
        "title": "FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI engineer over alleged office bugging",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/fbi-arrests-saudi-openai-engineer-over-alleged-office-bugging",
        "published": "2026-10-14T07:35:23.000Z"
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