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Toilet paper and secret recorders: What we know about the arrest of the Saudi OpenAI engineer

Tech | 2026-10-14 at 15:54 UTC | Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Abdulrahman Alfozan had worked for the AI giant for more than a year before he was arrested by the FBI.
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