{"text":[[{"start":8.84,"text":"The OpenAI employee accused of bugging the ChatGPT maker’s headquarters had booked a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia for three days after the date he was arrested, according to a court filing."}],[{"start":19.88,"text":"Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national, was arrested by the FBI on Friday after the AI lab found a cheap Chinese-made recording device wrapped in toilet paper and inserted in the back of a television in an executive conference room."}],[{"start":34.44,"text":"Prosecutors said in newly unsealed court filings that Alfozan, his wife and a third family member had booked travel to Saudi Arabia for October 12 without return flights."}],[{"start":44.8,"text":"The government cited the plane tickets last week as it urged a federal judge to seal the criminal complaint against Alfozan to avoid jeopardising his imminent arrest. The judge granted the request on October 8, but ordered the documents unsealed Tuesday."}],[{"start":59.34,"text":"“The defendant has the means — and will have an incentive — to flee the United States sooner if he learns about this case before he is arrested,” the US Justice Department attorneys wrote in the filing last week."}],[{"start":70.44,"text":"William Pernik, a lawyer for Alfozan, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He told the FT earlier on Wednesday that the allegations against Alfozan “appear wholly out of character for him” and vowed to “relentlessly investigate” the government’s evidence against his client."}],[{"start":87.12,"text":"The FBI claims Alfozan placed the bug at OpenAI’s office around September 28, two days before it was discovered by the start-up’s security team."}],[{"start":95.68,"text":"Alfozan was arrested by the FBI on October 9, according to the DoJ. OpenAI said it had fired him the same day."}],[{"start":103.24,"text":"The incident has highlighted longstanding concerns that leading AI labs are targets for industrial espionage by foreign nations trying to access technical secrets to gain an edge in the global AI race."}],[{"start":114.28,"text":"OpenAI said Tuesday that there was no indication that customer data, source code or the so-called model weights that determine how the systems operate had been stolen."}],[{"start":123.48,"text":"Alfozan had worked for OpenAI as an engineer since the mid-2025, and has been a permanent legal resident of the US since 2020."}],[{"start":136.82,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1792026617_6687.mp3"}