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Molotov Cocktail Attack at OpenAI CEO’s Home; Suspect Arrested
OpenAI said on Friday that San Francisco police arrested a suspect accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the home of its CEO, Sam Altman, and making threats outside the artificial intelligence startup’s headquarters.
The San Francisco Police Department posted on X that an unidentified man threw an incendiary device at a residence in North Beach at 4:12 a.m. and then fled on foot. About an hour later, police received a report of a man threatening to burn down another building, after which the 20-year-old suspect was detained.
Police did not immediately comment on the suspect’s possible motive.
“Fortunately, no one was injured,” an OpenAI spokesperson said. “We are very grateful for the San Francisco Police Department’s quick response and appreciate the support from the city government in helping ensure the safety of our employees.”
The spokesperson added that the company is cooperating with law enforcement in the investigation.
The incident comes at a time when OpenAI is facing significant pressure. Following disputes between competitor Anthropic and Washington, the company recently reached an agreement with the U.S. government allowing its technology to be used in classified military operations—a move that has sparked backlash. A recent NBC News poll found that artificial intelligence is less popular than the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
In a blog post on Friday afternoon, Sam Altman addressed the incident.
“Much of the criticism of our industry comes from sincere concerns about the incredibly high stakes of this technology,” he wrote,
He added, “As we engage in debate, we should lower the temperature in both rhetoric and strategy, and try to reduce the chances of ‘explosions’ happening in fewer homes—both figuratively and literally.”
San Francisco police said investigators found indications linking the 20-year-old man to the fire at Altman’s residence.

Investors piled $269.3 million into BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust on Thursday, in its best-performing day since early March, around the time the US-Iran war started to kick into high gear. 
The inflows helped to end two days of net outflows among the 12 US spot Bitcoin ETFs, which recorded a net inflow of $358.1 million.
Bitcoin ETF inflows are just one way to gauge retail and institutional demand for Bitcoin.
The Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) brought in the second most inflows at $53.3 million, while the new Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT) was the next biggest contributor, recording $14.9 million on its second day of trading, according to data from Farside Investors.
The Bitcoin ETFs issued by Bitwise and ARK 21Shares saw $11.7 million and $4.8 million worth of inflows, while Franklin Templeton and VanEck’s Bitcoin products tallied around $2 million.
BlackRock’s IBIT has now seen $1.5 billion worth of net inflows this year, withstanding a broader crypto market pullback, which has seen Bitcoin’s price fall from a 2026 high of $97,000 to $72,100 at the time of writing.
BlackRock’s digital assets head, Robert Mitchnick, said in March that investors of BlackRock’s IBIT have shown to be “disproportionately long-term buy and hold” investors — even when there’s been strong selling pressure elsewhere in the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley’s digital asset head, Amy Oldenburg, noted in an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday that MSBT was the institutional bank’s best-performing ETF launch ever.
“This is just the first of a long roadmap of new products on the asset management side,” Oldenburg said. 
Morgan Stanley has also filed to list a staked Ether (ETH) ETF and Solana (SOL) ETF.
With the latest day of inflows, US spot Bitcoin ETFs are now close to tipping back to a year-to-date net inflow. 
The Bitcoin ETFs finished 2025 at $56.59 billion in net inflows and are currently at $56.51 billion, meaning that they’re just $80 million away from clawing back to their inflow figures at the start of the year.