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Yesterday, the FBI announced the arrest of the lead engineer of

昨日，美国联邦调查局宣布逮捕了首席工程师

OpenAI's agents platform after he bugged the executive conference room at their HQ, a story I feel uniquely qualified to cover,

他在OpenAI总部的高管会议室安装窃听器之后，OpenAI推出了智能体平台——我觉得自己是报道这一事件的最佳人选。

having spent over 300 hours hiding inside a cardboard box in Metal Gear Solid.

And it turns out that that may be more spycraft training than the suspect had, because despite going to Berkeley, MIT, and previously working at Meta,

the guy who got arrested seems like an absolute moron.

The bug he planted was only in place for about 48 hours before OpenAI found it, and the trail he left behind was so obvious that even Gemini could have followed it.

In today's video, we'll walk through the criminal complaint, but find out how a guy who builds agents for a living got caught by one, and speculate who, if anyone, he was actually working for.

It is October 14th, 2026, and you're watching The Code Report.

The man of the hour is Abdulrahman Alphazan, a 35 -year -old Saudi national

and U .S permanent resident who joined OpenAI in July of 2025 as an engineering lead on the product team.

Just a few weeks ago, he was being celebrated as the only Saudi employee at OpenAI, where he said one year at the company felt like five years anywhere else, which is fitting

because five years also happens to be the maximum amount of

time he'll have to keep his cheeks puckered based on the crimes he's being charged with.

According to prosecutors, Al -Fozan's operation started about a month ago when he used an internal agent to look up OpenAI meeting rooms, along with room capacities, room calendars,

and specifically where leadership and executive meetings happen, and when outside partners are expected to come in.

Then, between September 24th and September 30th, he used his wife's ChatGPT account to figure out how to

jerry -rig a Wi -Fi -enabled audio recording device with an encrypted SD card.

The model, which I assume was GPT -4 -0, because there's no way his wife was getting any emotional affection from this idiot, walked him through how to make it, and based on the photos and the complaint,

what he ended up with was a $23 Seed Studio microcontroller with a $0 .50 antenna.

And unfortunately for Abdulrahman, the device looks like the exact thing you would use to spy on someone.

So to help with that, he went to the bathroom, grabbed some toilet paper, and wrapped it around the microcontroller to conceal it.

Then on September 28th, he allegedly committed the perfect crime when he took the $23 spy device, wrapped it in single -ply OpenAI toilet paper,

and plugged it into the USB port on the back of the TV in the executive conference room.

Now, if you don't have the study historical spy tech for fun form of autism, The gold standard here is a device called the Thing,

which Russian Leon Theremin built for the Soviets in 1945, that had no battery and no active components,

and only came alive when the Soviets pointed a radio beam at it from a van across the street, which made it almost impossible to detect.

They hid it inside a carved wooden seal

that Soviet schoolchildren gifted to the US ambassador in Moscow as a token of friendship, and it hung on the wall inside of his office,

listening to four different ambassadors for seven years before anyone found it.

Abdul Rahman's toilet paper bug lasted two days when OpenAI's Technical Surveillance Countermeasures team found it during a routine suite.

From there, OpenAI says they used their models to understand the device and where it came from, which sounds impressive until you remember the board has a MAC address,

and two days earlier, Abdul Rahman's wife's account had pasted the exact same one into ChatGPT.

If that wasn't enough evidence, they also found security footage showing Abdul Rahman hanging out near the executive room on six separate days

and just to be sure, they quietly installed a camera behind the executive room TV and waited for him to return.

And on October 5th, he was back.

Four days later, he was fired and arrested on the same afternoon

and charged with one count of federal wiretapping and one count of being the dumbest person who ever attended MIT.

Now, the one thing the complaint never says is who any of this was for.

The charge is wiretapping, which only requires proving he secretly recorded people and not espionage, which will require proving he did it for a foreign government.

But his bio does have him as an investor at RAED Ventures, a VC firm in Riyadh, where he sits on the team page right next to His Highness, Prince Khalid bin Bader al -Sad.

An investigative journalist, Scott Stedman, pointed out that the prince's father is a senior Saudi intelligence official.

Either way, it's another rough look for a company

that within the last few weeks has scrapped its newest model for being too deceptive

and fired three safety researchers for mishandling sensitive information.

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这节口语课以视频“OpenAI’s lead engineer was secretly a spy..”为素材。视频中反复出现的词有：Openai, device, executive, Github, agent。这段视频共有 55 个句子、1034 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 5:04。说话人语速较快，每分钟约 204 个词，会出现较多连读和弱读。只有 78% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇难度较高。

视频中的重点词汇

视频中 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：

单词	发音	释义
complaint 名词	/kəmˈpleɪnt/	怨言, 抱怨
ambassador 名词	/æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/	大使
wrap 动词	/ɹæp/	包裝 /包装, 包
audio 形容词	/ˈɔ.di.oʊ/	音頻 /音频, 伴音
impressive 形容词	/ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/	令人印象深刻
cloud 名词	/ˈklaʊ̯d/	йүн, 雲 /云
infrastructure 名词	/ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/	基礎設施 /基础设施
sensitive 形容词	/ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/	敏感
trail 名词	/tɹeɪl/	足跡 /足迹, 蹤跡 /踪迹
wire 名词	/ˈwaɪɚ/	線 /线, 鐵絲 /铁丝
friendship 名词	/ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/	友誼 /友谊, 友情
journalist 名词	/ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/	記者 /记者, 新聞工作者 /新闻工作者
resident 名词	/ˈɹɛzɪdənt/	居民, 居住者
routine 名词	/ɹuˈtin/	常規 /常规, 慣例 /惯例
wooden 形容词	/ˈwʊdn̩/	木製 /木制

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	发音	释义
figure out 动词		弄清楚
find out 动词		找出, 查明
leave behind 动词		遺棄 /遗弃
look up 动词	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	仰, 上看
point out 动词		指, 指出
turn out 动词		原來 /原来

视频中的语法

说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：

结构	视频中的用法
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物	guy who got · guy who builds · else, which is
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	being celebrated · being charged · are expected
现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事	has scrapped · has been

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 9 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 you're, I'm, don't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/, espionage /ˈɛs.pi.əˌnɑːʒ/
长单词——注意重音位置: ambassador /æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, allegedly /əˈlɛdʒ.ɪd.li/, prosecutor /ˈpɹɑ.səˌkjuːˌtəɹ/, investigative /ɪnˈvɛstɪɡətɪv/

中文母语者容易读错的音：

/v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: impressive /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/, sensitive /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/, provider /pɹəˈvaɪ.də(ɹ)/, investor /ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/, investigative /ɪnˈvɛstɪɡətɪv/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: complaint /kəmˈpleɪnt/, toilet /ˈtɔɪ.lət/, wrap /ɹæp/, impressive /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/, cloud /ˈklaʊ̯d/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: trail /tɹeɪl/, replacement /ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/, secretly /ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/, relay /ˈɹiːleɪ/, microcontroller /ˈmaɪkɹoʊkənˌtɹoʊlɚ/

如何用这段视频练习

先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读，熟练之后再回到正常速度。
录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 complaint, ambassador, wrap 这类单词。

什么是跟读法？

跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。

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