Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device appears to have Saudi backing: court filing

Prosecutors presented court documents showing that Abdulrahman Alfozan had frequent communication with an unnamed member of the Saudi Royal family and that a Saudi military member paid for plane tickets for his family to return to Saudi Arabia. The allegations suggest potential state-level involvement in what was initially presented as a corporate security breach.

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