Toilet paper and secret recorders: What we know about the arrest of the Saudi OpenAI engineer
2026-10-14 · BBC News
An OpenAI engineer got nabbed by the FBI after working at the AI giant for over a year — because nothing says 'trustworthy steward of humanity's most powerful technology' like having your staff arrested for alleged espionage. Toilet paper and secret recorders: the spy thriller nobody at OpenAI's vetting department saw coming.