Former OpenAI Engineer Pleads Not Guilty to Planting Office Bug

Abdulrahman Alfozan, a former OpenAI engineer, pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges of planting a surveillance device in an executive room at the company. He was arrested on Oct. 9 and remains in custody due to concerns he may flee to Saudi Arabia, with a hearing scheduled for Nov. 17. OpenAI confirmed no evidence of stolen model weights or source code.