OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s San Francisco home was the target of a Molotov cocktail attack on Friday, with the suspect arrested outside the company’s office after threatening to burn it down.
San Francisco police said they had arrested a 20-year-old male at about 5am on Friday after an “incendiary destructive device” was thrown at a home in the North Beach neighbourhood about an hour earlier.
OpenAI confirmed the attack had occurred and said the suspect had also “made threats” at its San Francisco headquarters, where he was then arrested. It added nobody was hurt in the two incidents. The police said the suspect was “threatening to burn down the building”.