Federal prosecutors charged Abdulrahman Al-Fazan, a Saudi national, on October 9 with using a device to intercept oral communications after OpenAI found a hidden recorder in one of its offices. Reporting since has established a second recorder left in a printer room and retrieved from the lost-and-found, a microphone on a micro SD card wrapped in toilet paper found plugged into a wall-mounted TV, a camera that photographed Al-Fazan peering behind that TV, his executive post at a Saudi VC firm alongside a royal family member, one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia, and a DOJ label of a potential national security incident. On October 20 Judge Alexi denied bail; the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles offered to pay the full bond…