# OpenAI Newsroom on AI: “We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidd…”

> We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understa… — 77.5K likes, 6.1K reposts on X.

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- **Posted:** 2026-10-13 19:48 UTC

We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer …

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