New, by me: An OpenAI employee on the product team has been arrested by the FBI and charged with planting a secret recording device in an OpenAI conference room. The Saudi national was arrested last week and fired on Friday after OpenAI allegedly caught him.
Bypass for ad-blockers: https://archive.is/J7s6j
It’s like surreal all the way down.
My biggest crime in a conference room has been stealing cookies.
@zackwhittaker I get that the FBI statement would've had to use Trump's stupid "SI" terminology, but I'd be tempted to include a parenthetic "sic" after every instance of quotes using the patently stupid name...
@zackwhittaker "The company said in a post on X that it used its internal AI models to understand the “sophisticated” device. " 🙄
Oct 14, 2026, 1:48 AM@zackwhittaker If only they would be so eager to arrest Sam Altman...
@zackwhittaker Next PR-Stunt..........