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14 October 2026
OpenAI’s day wasn’t about model capability—it was about access, secrecy, and who knows what. The company is fighting espionage-related allegations on two tracks: an FBI arrest of Abdulrahman Alfozan, accused of planting a hidden recording device in an OpenAI executive conference room, and a separate claim from OpenAI that a former employee took more than 100 files on unreleased product plans and shared them with Apple leadership after routing them through a personal account. OpenAI says it found no evidence that anyone obtained model weights, source code, or customer data, while court filings describe prosecutors seeking up to five years in prison if convicted. Judge Edward Davila is pressing for faster document handover and rules on injunction and dismissal motions in Apple’s trade-secret suit, turning what could have stayed behind lab doors into a schedule of legal deadlines.
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