US grand jury indicts OpenAI engineer for bugging executive conference room

A federal grand jury indicted OpenAI engineer and Saudi national Abdulrahman "Abdul" Alfozan on a felony charge of interception of oral communications. He is accused of planting a listening device in a San Francisco conference room used by company executives.

• Felony charge: interception of oral communications
• Alleged bugging targeted an executive conference room in San Francisco
• Defendant is an OpenAI engineer and Saudi national
• Indictment returned by a grand jury on Tuesday