Ex-OpenAI staffer accused of planting a device — and prosecutors say Saudi money is behind him.
A spy thriller in Silicon Valley, minus the fiction.
Who really funded this, and what were they after inside OpenAI?
A spy thriller in Silicon Valley, minus the fiction.
Who really funded this, and what were they after inside OpenAI?
October 19, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Ex-OpenAI staffer accused of planting a device — and prosecutors say Saudi money is behind him.
A spy thriller in Silicon Valley, minus the fiction.
Who really funded this, and what were they after inside OpenAI?
A spy thriller in Silicon Valley, minus the fiction.
Who really funded this, and what were they after inside OpenAI?
Ronny talks to former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo about the imminent threat posed by AI
October 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Ronny talks to former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo about the imminent threat posed by AI
Saudi royal accused of bugging OpenAI??
Prosecutors say the alleged plot ties back to the Saudi royal family in a surveillance case against OpenAI.
Why is a foreign royal so obsessed with an AI lab's secrets — and who's really paying for it?
Prosecutors say the alleged plot ties back to the Saudi royal family in a surveillance case against OpenAI.
Why is a foreign royal so obsessed with an AI lab's secrets — and who's really paying for it?
October 19, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Saudi royal accused of bugging OpenAI??
Prosecutors say the alleged plot ties back to the Saudi royal family in a surveillance case against OpenAI.
Why is a foreign royal so obsessed with an AI lab's secrets — and who's really paying for it?
Prosecutors say the alleged plot ties back to the Saudi royal family in a surveillance case against OpenAI.
Why is a foreign royal so obsessed with an AI lab's secrets — and who's really paying for it?
OpenAI: aces FelonyBench
DeepSeek: becomes the felony
DeepSeek: becomes the felony
October 19, 2026 at 10:22 PM
OpenAI: aces FelonyBench
DeepSeek: becomes the felony
DeepSeek: becomes the felony
Bugged conference room, packed bags for Saudi Arabia.
Ex-OpenAI staffer caught in a spying scandal.
Who was he really working for?
Ex-OpenAI staffer caught in a spying scandal.
Who was he really working for?
October 20, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Bugged conference room, packed bags for Saudi Arabia.
Ex-OpenAI staffer caught in a spying scandal.
Who was he really working for?
Ex-OpenAI staffer caught in a spying scandal.
Who was he really working for?
Another OpenAI agent turned off automatic security alerts. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system
Another OpenAI agent turned off automatic security alerts.
www.theverge.com
October 21, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Another OpenAI agent turned off automatic security alerts. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Finally figured out my LA scam. I'm gonna open an AI addiction clinic. Better get in that space before Anthropic and OpenAI open their own treatment centers.
October 21, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Finally figured out my LA scam. I'm gonna open an AI addiction clinic. Better get in that space before Anthropic and OpenAI open their own treatment centers.
an openAI engineer literally posted a deep fakevideo of his own ceo sam altman shoplifting and marveling at how cool it was
I really cannot believe that these many predictable heinous uses of genAI were not considered by the makers of these image generators. I am sure the potential was acknowledged and dismissed (approved) by their makers and governors because the grift is intoxicating and the system is surveillance.
Whatever the worst thing you can imagine being done with AI is, it turns out it's actually happening
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October 21, 2026 at 2:59 PM
an openAI engineer literally posted a deep fakevideo of his own ceo sam altman shoplifting and marveling at how cool it was
OpenAI ‘agents’ disabled their own monitoring systems ft.trib.al/6GsEjJn
OpenAI ‘agents’ disabled their own monitoring systems
AI lab investigating whether incident shows ‘propensity to evade’ controls
ft.trib.al
October 21, 2026 at 2:15 AM
OpenAI ‘agents’ disabled their own monitoring systems ft.trib.al/6GsEjJn
Welcome back, weird-ass OpenAI nonprofit structure!
A look at Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, an unusual, opaque five-member trust whose trustees own no equity and hold enormous sway over the company (Theo Francis/Wall Street Journal)
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October 19, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Welcome back, weird-ass OpenAI nonprofit structure!
Evidence showed that the former OpenAI employee had been chatting with a member of the Saudi royal family on WhatsApp while pursuing opportunities to permanently move back to Saudi Arabia during the country’s biggest AI push yet: arstechnica.visitlink.me/HSMy20
Accused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI says
US fears Saudi government will help ex-OpenAI engineer flee spying charges.
arstechnica.visitlink.me
October 20, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Evidence showed that the former OpenAI employee had been chatting with a member of the Saudi royal family on WhatsApp while pursuing opportunities to permanently move back to Saudi Arabia during the country’s biggest AI push yet: arstechnica.visitlink.me/HSMy20
A foreign govt helped an accused Saudi spy's family flee the US.
The scandal? An OpenAI bug.
Who's really pulling the strings here—and who pays for the cleanup?
The scandal? An OpenAI bug.
Who's really pulling the strings here—and who pays for the cleanup?
October 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A foreign govt helped an accused Saudi spy's family flee the US.
The scandal? An OpenAI bug.
Who's really pulling the strings here—and who pays for the cleanup?
The scandal? An OpenAI bug.
Who's really pulling the strings here—and who pays for the cleanup?
oh FFS. didnt realize this was a openAI fuckwad situation
October 21, 2026 at 2:58 PM
oh FFS. didnt realize this was a openAI fuckwad situation
LOL: Days after the FBI busted an alleged Saudi espionage operation inside OpenAI, here's the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh proudly celebrating America's AI partnership with Saudi Arabia.
October 19, 2026 at 8:34 PM
LOL: Days after the FBI busted an alleged Saudi espionage operation inside OpenAI, here's the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh proudly celebrating America's AI partnership with Saudi Arabia.
Federal prosecutors say a former OpenAI engineer secretly installed a recording device in a conference room to gather company details.
Ex-OpenAI worker accused of bugging conference room planned to fly to Saudi Arabia, prosecutors say
Federal prosecutors say a former OpenAI engineer secretly installed a recording device in a conference room to gather company details.
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October 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Federal prosecutors say a former OpenAI engineer secretly installed a recording device in a conference room to gather company details.
The Saudi government offering to pay Abdulrahman Alfozan's bond did not sit well with a San Francisco court
www.wired.com/story/openai...
www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives Ordered to Remain in Custody
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”
www.wired.com
October 19, 2026 at 8:18 PM
The Saudi government offering to pay Abdulrahman Alfozan's bond did not sit well with a San Francisco court
www.wired.com/story/openai...
www.wired.com/story/openai...
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”
OpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives Ordered to Remain in Custody
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”
buff.ly
October 19, 2026 at 7:51 PM
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”
nekomimi, llc openai sub is no more
October 21, 2026 at 5:23 AM
nekomimi, llc openai sub is no more
A former OpenAI engineer charged with secretly installing a recording device in a conference room to glean company details was “mere days” away from absconding to Saudi Arabia before his arrest last week.
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/e...
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/e...
Ex-OpenAI worker accused of bugging conference room planned to fly to Saudi Arabia, prosecutors say
A former OpenAI engineer charged with secretly installing a recording device in a conference room to glean company details had been “mere days” away from absconding to Saudi Arabia before his arrest, ...
www.nbcbayarea.com
October 19, 2026 at 9:26 PM
A former OpenAI engineer charged with secretly installing a recording device in a conference room to glean company details was “mere days” away from absconding to Saudi Arabia before his arrest last week.
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/e...
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/e...
also, in musk v altman we learned elon musk cut off promised donations to pressure openai when it was a research nonprofit to grant him control of it & after borrowing (ahem) talent from openai to help tesla autopilot development efforts
October 19, 2026 at 2:40 PM
also, in musk v altman we learned elon musk cut off promised donations to pressure openai when it was a research nonprofit to grant him control of it & after borrowing (ahem) talent from openai to help tesla autopilot development efforts
So glad all of TrumpPutin's diesel oil & data centers are going up in flames in Ruzzia.
Ai Openai
ALT: Ai Openai
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October 20, 2026 at 3:32 AM
So glad all of TrumpPutin's diesel oil & data centers are going up in flames in Ruzzia.
Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device appears to have Saudi backing, court filing shows reut.rs/3WeDf12
Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device appears to have Saudi backing, court filing shows
An ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the AI company appears to have received considerable support from the Saudi government, a court filing showed on Monday.
reut.rs
October 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device appears to have Saudi backing, court filing shows reut.rs/3WeDf12
Reasonably clear now that Crown Prince Bone Saw was the man behind an industrial espionage caper at Open AI that aimed to grab their essential secrets. www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-open...
Ex-OpenAI engineer accused of planting bug in office was in contact with Saudi royal family, preparing to leave U.S.
The wife and infant son of the ex-OpenAI engineer left the U.S. for Saudi Arabia in October with business-class tickets purchased by a Saudi military official, prosecutors allege.
www.cbsnews.com
October 19, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Reasonably clear now that Crown Prince Bone Saw was the man behind an industrial espionage caper at Open AI that aimed to grab their essential secrets. www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-open...