The Tuesday incident comes as the ChatGPT-maker, along with competitors, faces heightened scrutiny over its safety practices.
Source: [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/13/openai-employee-arrested-recording-device.html)
A Saudi national who worked at OpenAI as an engineer is suspected of planting a recording device in one of the company's conference rooms.
Discovery of ‘sophisticated’ gadget adds to company’s list of privacy concerns after hackings by rogue agents OpenAI said it has found a hidden recording device in one of its offices and has referred the matter to the FBI. One of its employees has been arrested. In a statement on Tuesday, the S...
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OpenAI said a "sophisticated recording device" was found in one of its offices and that the company's own models identified the person who planted it.
OpenAI said that the employee had placed a device built to evade detection and that he had planned to secretly record meetings in other sensitive spaces.
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