What We Know About the Engineer Accused of Bugging OpenAI Conference Room

P.M. Edition for Oct. 15. When the FBI arrested engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan earlier this week for allegedly planting a mic (wsj.com/tech/ai/saudi-national-charged-with-bu…) in an OpenAI conference room, AI companies had already been on alert for espionage. Journal reporter Maxwell Zeff (wsj.com/news/author/maxwell-zeff?mod=WSJ_WNPOD) discusses what we know about Alfozan (wsj.com/tech/ai/the-engineer-accused-of-buggin…) and how Silicon Valley is trying to prevent incidents like these (wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-companies-play-cat-and-mous…). Plus, Meta announces that it’s teaming up with Apple (wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-and-apple-longtime-foes-t…) to deliver open-weight AI models to Mac computers. We hear from tech reporter Meghan Bobrowsky (wsj.com/news/author/meghan-bobrowsky?mod=WSJ_W…) about why the two rivals have entered a partnership. And President Trump reverses a decision by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying that the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan won’t be livestreamed (wsj.com/us-news/trump-cancels-plans-for-livest…). Alex Ossola hosts.

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