{"id":602256,"date":"2026-04-13T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602256\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:52:10","slug":"sam-altman-attack-suspect-listed-other-ai-ceos-and-investors-in-note-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602256\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman Attack Suspect Listed Other AI CEOs and Investors in Note: Feds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man accused of tossing a Molotov cocktail<\/a> at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman<\/a> was found with an “anti-AI” document that listed off the names and addresses of other AI CEOs and investors, according to the feds.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Moreno-Gama, who was booked on multiple state charges, including attempted murder, according to jail records, is now facing federal charges in connection with Friday’s attack. A federal criminal complaint viewed by Business Insider charged him with possession of an unregistered firearm and attempted damage and destruction of property by means of explosives.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear whether Moreno-Gama has retained an attorney.<\/p>\n

According to an affidavit by an FBI agent, authorities said the 20-year-old traveled from Texas to California and, in the early morning hours, threw a Molotov cocktail at two neighboring homes owned by Altman. The device caused a fire at the top of the driveway gate, and the suspect fled the scene, the affidavit says.<\/p>\n

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Surveillance images captured Daniel Moreno-Gama outside of OpenAI’s headquarters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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About an hour and a half later, the feds say the suspect arrived at OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters, took a chair and used it to strike the glass doors. His actions were captured on surveillance footage, the court papers say.<\/p>\n

On-site security personnel reported that the suspect said he came to “burn it down and kill anyone inside,” the affidavit says.<\/p>\n

Officers with the San Francisco Police Department ultimately arrested Moreno-Gama and recovered “incendiary devices,” a jug of kerosene, a blue lighter, and the anti-AI document, the court papers say.<\/p>\n

The affidavit says the document was a three-part series that “identified views opposed to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the executives of various AI companies, including Victim-1.” Victim-1 refers to Altman, who later confirmed the attack on his blog.<\/p>\n

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The first part of the document was titled “Your Last Warning” followed by the suspect’s name. In that part of the missive, he allegedly said that he ‘killed\/attempted to kill’ Victim-1,” according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

“Also if I am going to advocate for others to kill and commit crimes, then I must lead by example and show that I am fully sincere in my message,” the document read, the affidavit says.<\/p>\n

The document then listed the names of apparent board members, AI company CEOs, and investors, the court papers say.<\/p>\n

The second part of the document was titled, “Some more words on the matter of our impending extinction,” and detailed the “purported risk AI poses to humanity,” the feds said.<\/p>\n

The third part was a letter addressed to Altman that began with “if you make it,” according to the court papers. “If by some miracle you live, then I would take this as a sign from the divine to redeem yourself,” the letter said, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

Online records show that Moreno-Gama remains behind bars at the San Francisco County Jail.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the attack on his home, Altman took to his blog and posted a photo of his husband and their son.<\/p>\n

“Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the hopes that it might dissuade the next person from throwing a Molotov cocktail at our house, no matter what they think about me,” Altman wrote.<\/p>\n

“The first person did it last night, at 3:45 am in the morning. Thankfully it bounced off the house and no one got hurt,” he said.<\/p>\n

The OpenAI CEO went on to say that AI “will be the most powerful tool for expanding human capability” and that the “fear and anxiety” around the technology is “justified.”<\/p>\n

“I empathize with anti-technology sentiments and clearly technology isn’t always good for everyone. But overall, I believe technological progress can make the future unbelievably good, for your family and mine,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

Altman added, “While we have that debate, we should de-escalate the rhetoric and tactics and try to have fewer explosions in fewer homes, figuratively and literally.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man accused of tossing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[227847,62,276,277,49,48,227851,227850,6320,1823,2151,1830,227849,227852,14904,227848,2747,227854,94588,61,227853],"class_list":{"0":"post-602256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-affidavit","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-court-paper","15":"tag-daniel-moreno-gama","16":"tag-document","17":"tag-fed","18":"tag-home","19":"tag-investor","20":"tag-molotov-attack","21":"tag-molotov-cocktail","22":"tag-name","23":"tag-other-ai-ceo","24":"tag-sam-altman","25":"tag-san-francisco-home","26":"tag-suspect","27":"tag-technology","28":"tag-victim-1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}