Employee accused of planting listening device in OpenAI office pleads not guilty

Nov. 7 — According to CNBC, Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national employee accused of installing an eavesdropping device at OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters, appeared in San Francisco federal court on Friday local time and pleaded not guilty to the charge. Court records show that a grand jury indicted him on Oct. 27 on one count of intercepting oral communications; if convicted, he faces up to five years in prison. Alfozan has been in custody without bail since his arrest in early October, and the judge ordered him to appear in court again on Nov. 17.