Saudis paid to fly OpenAI leak suspect's family out of US, prosecutors say
New court filings allege Saudi officials funded travel for the family of the engineer accused of leaking OpenAI secrets, and offered bail. A judge kept him in custody.
Federal prosecutors say Saudi officials paid for the wife and son of an OpenAI engineer accused of leaking company secrets to leave the U.S., and offered to cover his bail. A judge ordered the engineer to remain in custody, escalating the national-security stakes around AI trade secrets.
The espionage-tinged case around OpenAI's alleged leaker just took a sharp geopolitical turn. In new court filings, federal prosecutors say Saudi officials paid for the wife and son of the engineer accused of stealing and leaking OpenAI secrets to fly out of the United States, and even offered to cover his bail. A federal judge was unpersuaded by that show of support and ordered the engineer to remain in custody, according to the filings. The development transforms what might have been a routine corporate-trade-secrets case into a live national-security flashpoint, with the Saudi government now directly implicated in the accused engineer's personal affairs.
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