Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told employees an in-house model was better than a similar offering from OpenAI, one of the software giant’s biggest customers and partners. “We now have a stronger pre-trained base model than the model that currently powers GPT 5.6 Sol,” Suleyman said during a town hall meeting with employees on Thursday.
The attorney for the former OpenAI employee accused of planting a recording device in the company’s San Francisco headquarters is calling the allegations “wholly out of character,” insisting his client’s flight to Saudi Arabia was pre-booked, and urging the public not to jump to conclusions about the suspect’s Saudi nationality. William Pernik, who represents the
West Virginia’s attorney general, John McCuskey, primarily alleges that OpenAI has misled consumers and created a public nuisance that endangers children. As a remedy, the state wants age checks, parental controls, default session and nighttime limits for children, mandatory crisis-escalation protocols, and an independent monitor. It also asks that OpenAI fund a court-supervised plan supporting
Abdulrahman Alfozan loved Saudi Arabia. One day before arresting the former OpenAI engineer on charges of bugging the office, the Justice Department worried he would flee back to his home country. Alfozan, his wife, and another family member had already booked one-way tickets, the department said in a court filing. It wouldn’t be unusual for
The FBI arrested an OpenAI employee and charged him with planting a surveillance device in an executive conference room to record the company’s plans for its artificial intelligence, the company and FBI confirmed on Tuesday. The US Department of Justice identified the employee as 35-year-old Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi Arabian citizen and legal permanent resident
Alfozan had been employed as an engineer by OpenAI since July 2025. The complaint said he was educated in the US and has been a legal permanent resident since 2020. He was arrested by the FBI on 9 October and his contract with OpenAI has been terminated. Alfozan’s lawyer William Pernik told the BBC: “Like
