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

BBC News Technology · 14 October 2026 at 16:54

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

Abdulrahman Alfozan had worked for the AI giant for more than a year before he was arrested by the FBI.

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

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