The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) of the U.S. Armed Forces announced the interception of an aircraft near President Donald Trump's residence in Florida.
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"Earlier today, NORAD Continental Area Command fighter jets intercepted a general aviation aircraft that entered a temporary flight restriction area over Palm Beach, Florida," the command said in a post on the X social networking site on Saturday.
The command urged all pilots to review the air mission warnings issued by the US authorities before takeoff in order to avoid such incidents.
US President Donald Trump arrived at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach on Friday evening and played golf on Saturday before returning to the residence.
Trump is scheduled to address his supporters at a rally in Georgia on Sunday as part of the Republican Party's campaign ahead of the November 3 congressional elections.
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The FBI is considering charging a Saudi engineer with economic espionage
The Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI is considering charging a former Saudi engineer at OpenAI with economic espionage, on suspicion of attempting to pass on classified information.
The newspaper quoted a law enforcement official on Saturday as saying that investigators are looking into the possibility that Abdul Rahman Al-Fawzan stole information from the company with the aim of later handing it over to the Saudi government, even without receiving direct instructions from it.
She added that the office is also exploring the possibility of charging Al-Fawzan with stealing trade secrets, noting that the investigation may end without any further charges being filed.
US authorities arrested Al-Fawzan, 35, on October 9, and charged him with attempting to eavesdrop on conversations inside the company's headquarters in San Francisco.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, investigators suspect that Al-Fawzan hid a small recording device behind a television in a meeting room reserved for senior executives, where highly confidential technical, commercial, and strategic information is discussed.
The ministry explained that company employees discovered the device on September 30, and a security team later found a similar recording device inside a bag belonging to the accused. Al-Fawzan faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
The newspaper stated that the prosecution had detected frequent communications via the WhatsApp application, owned by Meta, a company classified in Russia as an extremist organization, between Al-Fawzan and a member of the Saudi royal family during the years 2025 and 2026.
According to court documents cited by US media on October 19, the Saudi national attempted to recruit Al-Fawzan to work on an artificial intelligence initiative in the Kingdom. Prior to his arrest, the defendant also purchased one-way tickets from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia for himself, his wife, and their three-month-old child.
A US court refused to release him on bail for fear that he would flee, while his lawyer confirmed that his client intends to appeal the charges in court.
For its part, OpenAI announced that it had not detected any indications that the accused had unlawfully accessed AI model weights, source code, or customer data.
Al-Fawzan is scheduled to appear in court again on November 6, while US authorities have not yet announced formal charges of economic espionage against him.