OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home was targeted twice within three days, first by a Molotov cocktail attack by a man citing anti-AI beliefs and later by gunfire from a passing car. The main suspect was arrested with incendiary materials and a manifesto, while police continue probing the second incident. No injuries were reported.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home was targeted in two separate incidents within three days, the first involving a Molotov cocktail thrown by a 20-year-old Texas man motivated by anti-AI beliefs, and the second involving gunfire from a passing car.

The primary attack occurred in the early hours of April 10, when Daniel Moreno-Gama allegedly hurled a lit incendiary device (Molotov cocktail) at the gate of Altman’s Russian Hill residence around 3:37–3:45 a.m. The device caused a small fire at the exterior gate but bounced off the building with no injuries reported. Altman later confirmed the incident in a public statement.

Less than two hours later, Moreno-Gama was arrested outside OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters after allegedly striking the glass doors with a chair, threatening to 'burn it down and kill anyone inside,' and carrying additional incendiary materials, a lighter, kerosene, and a multi-page anti-AI manifesto. Authorities say he had traveled specifically from Spring, Texas (a Houston suburb) to carry out the acts.

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