{"id":262487,"date":"2026-04-11T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/262487\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:54:16","slug":"sam-altmans-san-francisco-home-targeted-with-molotov-cocktail-openai-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/262487\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman&#8217;s San Francisco home targeted with Molotov cocktail, OpenAI says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was targeted with a Molotov cocktail on Friday morning, a company spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, OpenAI said the person suspected of throwing the device also allegedly made threats against the company&#8217;s San Francisco headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco police confirmed officers responded to a North Beach home shortly after 4 a.m. for a report of someone throwing an incendiary device, with an exterior gate catching fire.<\/p>\n<p>About an hour later, police said they responded to a report of a person allegedly threatening to burn down a building along the 1400 block of 3rd Street.<\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt in either incident, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We deeply appreciate how quickly SFPD responded and the support from the city in helping keep our employees safe,&#8221; OpenAI said in their statement.<\/p>\n<p>Police have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with the incidents. His name has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was targeted with a Molotov cocktail on Friday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3408,2792,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-262487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-openai","9":"tag-sam-altman","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}