{"id":392486,"date":"2026-04-11T00:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392486\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:58:08","slug":"home-of-openais-sam-altman-targeted-with-molotov-cocktail-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392486\/","title":{"rendered":"Home of OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman targeted with Molotov cocktail \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 20-year-old man allegedly tossed a Molotov cocktail at the home of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sam-altman\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sam-altman\/\">Sam Altman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/openai\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/openai\/\">OpenAI<\/a>\u2019s chief executive, early on  Friday morning, San Francisco police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The suspect, who allegedly threw the explosive at the $27 million North Beach residence at about 4.12am, has been arrested but not identified. The same person allegedly threatened to torch OpenAI\u2019s headquarters in the city. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The San Francisco police wrote in a statement on X on Friday morning that the agency responded to a \u201cfire investigation\u201d after the man allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Altman\u2019s residence. Law enforcement said there was a \u201cfire to an exterior gate\u201d, after which the suspect fled on foot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">About an hour later, just after 5am, police responded to reports from a business in the Mission Bay neighbourhood, where OpenAI\u2019s headquarters are located, about a man \u201cthreatening to burn down the building\u201d. Officers said they recognised the man as the suspect from the earlier incident and detained him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/2026\/04\/05\/mark-oconnell-sheer-prevalence-of-ai-prose-is-giving-rise-to-a-new-and-extreme-kind-of-suspicion\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheer prevalence of AI prose is giving rise to a new and extreme kind of suspicionOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">OpenAI, best known for making the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/chatgpt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/chatgpt\/\">ChatGPT<\/a> chatbot, confirmed the incident in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cEarly this morning, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman\u2019s home and also made threats at our San Francisco headquarters. Thankfully, no one was hurt,\u201d a representative said. \u201cThe individual is in custody, and we\u2019re assisting law enforcement with their investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">OpenAI sent a note informing employees Friday morning about the incident, and told them there was no immediate threat to them or other offices. The note also mentioned there would be increased police and security presence around its Mission Bay offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Last year OpenAI locked down its San Francisco office after the company reported a threat from a person once affiliated with an anti-AI activist group. \u2013 Guardian service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old man allegedly tossed a Molotov cocktail at the home of Sam Altman, OpenAI\u2019s chief executive, early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,2670,61,60,1682,7689,115],"class_list":{"0":"post-392486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-chatgpt","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-openai","13":"tag-sam-altman","14":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}