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Good morning. Federal prosecutors have added a new and striking detail to the case of the OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room: Abdulrahman Alfozan had already booked one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia for himself, his wife, and a family member, routed through Istanbul, before agents arrested him on October 9. That detail, laid out in a filing used to justify sealing the case before his arrest, turns what initially read as a bizarre workplace espionage story into something prosecutors are treating as a serious flight risk. Alfozan had worked at OpenAI as an engineer since last July, giving him access inside one of the most closely watched AI labs in the world, and the case raises uncomfortable questions about insider threats at companies sitting on frontier research that foreign governments have strong incentives to obtain. He remains in federal custody while the investigation into what he intended to record, and why, continues. Below: today's five recent stories across markets, AI, policy, and security. | |||||
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