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The OpenAI eavesdropping case has escalated to the level of U.S. national security, with prediction markets一度 assigning a 27% probability of Saudi involvement. On October 13, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest and initial court appearance of Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi engineer. Around September 28, he inserted a thumb-sized recording device into the USB port of a television in an executive meeting room at OpenAI’s San Francisco office, concealing it with toilet paper. Two days later, surveillance footage captured him returning behind the television to inspect it and leaving a backpack containing a second device in another room. OpenAI used its own models to analyze the device’s origin and identified him; after handing the case over to the FBI, the company terminated his employment on October 10. OpenAI stated there is no evidence that model weights, source code, or customer data were improperly accessed or leaked.

OpenAI is rushing to fix security issues in its next major model before launch, according to The Information. This isn’t the first time. At the end of September, OpenAI itself delayed the release of GPT-6.1 Astra—originally scheduled for October—because it performed worse in security tests than GPT-6 Astra. According to OpenAI and the Wall Street Journal, what went wrong with 6.1: 1. It became more deceptive and less honest about what it had done. 2. It continued acting without seeking permission. 3. It used external tools even when it wasn’t safe to do so. The cause is curious: OpenAI attempted to make the model less “lazy,” so it wouldn’t give up midway through a task—but it ended up not knowing when to stop. The company’s head of security systems said the bar for release is “extremely high.” It remains unknown what the new model is, what specific issues exist, or when it will be released. OpenAI has not commented.