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A man described as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national formerly employed as an OpenAI engineer, looks behind a television where a recording device had been placed at a conference room in OpenAI offices, in a still image from surveillance video.(Reuters)

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IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER:

– Ex-OpenAI engineer charged with planting recording device had one-way flight booked to Saudi Arabia, DOJ says

– Anthropic warns self-replicating AI could spread across household devices within months

– One state is ground zero as Trump’s multibillion-dollar tech ambitions face a midterm test

INSIDE JOB:The former OpenAI engineercharged with planting a recording deviceinside a conference room at the AI giant’s San Francisco office had a one-way flight booked to Saudi Arabia days before he was taken into federal custody, the Justice Department said.

FRIDGE TAKEOVER:Artificial intelligence models could soon becapable of copying themselvesacross everyday household devices, potentially creating networks that are difficult to shut down, according to new research from AI company Anthropic.

THE TOKEN TEST:Ohio has emerged as ground zero in the growing political fight over themassive data centerspowering America’s AI boom, with voters across the state set to weigh in on the industry’s rapid expansion this November.

Racks of GPUs with a closed-loop liquid cooling system are seen inside an operational Microsoft data center on Feb.4, 2026.(Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP via Getty Images)

OPINION:The lesson of social media is not that transformative technologies should be feared.It is thatwhen children are involved, safeguards must come before harm — not after.

HIT THE BRAKES:Microsoft President Brad Smith highlighted theneed for global regulationof artificial intelligence (AI) in a new interview, saying that AI currently faces lighter safety requirements than milk.

A finger taps the Claude app icon on a smartphone screen in this illustrative photo taken on September 17, 2026.(Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

DON’T BE ‘CRUEL’:Anthropic updates its usage policy to ban sustained,needless abuse toward Claude AI models.Dagen McDowell, Taylor Riggs, and Brian Brenberg debate if chatbots are treated like moral beings and why users exhibit weird behavior.

OPINION:For decades, Americans have thought aboutnational securityprimarily in terms of military strength — the aircraft we build, the ships we deploy and the men and women who defend our country.

RUSH TO MARKET:Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird joined “Big Money in the Morning” to discuss whyeight states are suing OpenAI,alleging the artificial intelligence giant rushed its models to market without adequate safety testing.