tl;dr: OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national hired in July 2025, was arrested after allegedly hiding an encrypted audio recording device behind a TV in an executive conference room at the company's SF headquarters. Prosecutors say chatbot queries from an account tied to his spouse asked how to build and encrypt a continuous audio recorder, and surveillance footage showed him near the unauthorized room multiple times. He faces up to five years in prison; OpenAI says it used its own models to analyze the device and found no evidence of stolen model weights or source code.