The FBI arrested Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi citizen and U.S. legal permanent resident who worked as an OpenAI engineer, on Oct. 9 and charged him with using a device to intercept oral communications, an offense carrying up to five years in prison; the case is unresolved and he is presumed innocent. OpenAI said staff found a USB recording device wrapped in toilet paper behind a TV in a restricted executive conference room on Sept. 30, and that it used its own models to analyze the device and identify who planted it before referring the matter to the FBI, adding that it found no evidence model weights, source code or customer data were taken. Prosecutors said in an Oct. 8 sealing request that Alfozan, his wife and another family member had booked one-way tickets from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia via Istanbul for Oct. 12, and he remains in federal custody ahead of an Oct. 19 detention hearing.