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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

OpenAI engineer arrested after allegedly planting audio recorder; prompts entered via chatbot-linked account

U.S. authorities say Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national who worked at OpenAI since July 2025, was arrested on Oct. 9 for allegedly concealing an audio recording device in a conference room used by company leadership. The indictment alleges prompts to build and configure the recorder were entered through a chatbot account linked to his wife (whether it was ChatGPT is not specified); OpenAI says there are no indications of accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data and the employee has been fired.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Mistral AI

Mistral and HUMAIN announce strategic collaboration to build sovereign AI in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East

Mistral and HUMAIN announced a strategic collaboration spanning AI infrastructure, advanced model development, and deployment across Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. The partnership—described as involving hundreds of millions of euros—will initially focus on cybersecurity, voice, and frontier Arabic-language models, explore using HUMAIN’s data centers for local compute, and pursue a joint go-to-market strategy for regulated industries.

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