India, Oct. 15 -- An OpenAI employee arrested on charges of allegedly planting a hidden recording device in one of the ChatGPT maker's San Francisco offices had reportedly booked a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia for October 12.

Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi Arabian national, was arrested on October 9, more than a week after OpenAI employees discovered an audio recording device hidden behind a television in an executive conference room, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday, according to a Bloomberg report. Alfozan, who is accused of placing the device, remains in federal custody and appeared in court in San Francisco on Tuesday.

According to a court filing, cited in the report, Alfozan, his wife and another family member had booked o...