med innocent, and cautioned against  jumping to conclusions at this very early stage of the case when very little information is known,  or seeking to  politicize  a prosecution based on factors like nationality.

The criminal complaint, made public on Tuesday, alleged that Alfozan used a productivity tool to make inquiries about OpenAI's building addresses, meeting rooms, meeting-room capacities and calendars, and locations of  leadership and exec  and external partner meetings.

Other evidence gathered in the investigation, meanwhile, showed that a chatbot account associated with Alfozan's spouse had also submitted prompts between Sept. 24 and Sept. 30, related to building, customizing, installing, audio recording, testing, obfuscating and remote accessing a continuous audio recording device.

A photograph included in the complaint also shows that Alfozan entered the conference room where the device was hidden on Oct. 5 and looked behind the television.

That same day, the complaint says Alfozan left his bag unattended in another room, and the company's security personnel opened it and found his ID, wallet and another recording device similar to the one planted in the conference room.

Alfozan is due to appear in federal court again on Oct. 19 for a detention hearing.