FBI Weighs Additional Economic Espionage Charges Against Former OpenAI Engineer Suspected of Bugging OpenAI

October 25 — According to The Wall Street Journal, a law enforcement official said the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is considering additional economic espionage charges against former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan. The investigation focuses on whether he stole information from OpenAI with the intent to provide it to the Saudi government, even though he was not employed by the Saudi government. Alfozan was previously arrested on suspicion of installing an eavesdropping device in a restricted conference room at OpenAI and remains in pretrial detention.