{"id":1043300,"date":"2026-10-14T11:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043300"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:49:41","slug":"openai-fires-employees-after-spying-device-found-in-office-says-fbis-investigation-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/openai-fires-employees-after-spying-device-found-in-office-says-fbis-investigation-is\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI fires employees after spying device found in office; says: FBI\u2019s investigation is &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has terminated an employee after a hidden recording device was discovered inside one of its San Francisco offices, with the company saying it referred the matter to the FBI and is continuing to cooperate with an ongoing investigation. According to a report by Fortune, the federal authorities have arrested 35-year-old Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan, an OpenAI engineering lead, on allegations that he secretly installed the device in a conference room used for highly confidential company discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The incident came to light on September 30 when OpenAI&#8217;s technical surveillance countermeasures team found a concealed audio-recording device plugged into a USB port behind a television in a conference room, according to the FBI. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has terminated an employee after a hidden recording device was discovered inside one of its San Francisco offices, with the company saying it referred the matter to the FBI and is continuing to cooperate with an ongoing investigation. According to a report by Fortune, the federal authorities have arrested 35-year-old Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan, an OpenAI engineering lead, on allegations that he secretly installed the device in a conference room used for highly confidential company discussions. The incident came to light on September 30 when OpenAI&#8217;s technical surveillance countermeasures team found a concealed audio-recording device plugged into a USB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043301,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043300\/revisions\/1043301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}