OpenAI engineer charged with installing recording device, has one‑way ticket

He also faces a felony charge for using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications, punishable by up to five years in prison, and had one‑way tickets to Saudi Arabia booked for 12 October via Istanbul, booked on 8 October and including his wife and another family member; a second device was allegedly found on 5 October in an unattended bag, and OpenAI said no model weights, source code or customer data were taken.