SF News Police Search For Potential Co-Conspirator In OpenAI Firebomb Attack A search is underway for an unidentified young woman who called to request a late checkout for the suspect in the OpenAI firebomb attack in April, and the SFPD thinks she may be a co-conspirator.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Natalie Gee Withdraws From November Election For District 4 Supervisor A 33-year-old swimmer aims to be the first person to swim the entire California coast; an activist was convicted after protesting in front of OpenAI’s headquarters last year; and Natalie Gee has dropped out of the November race for District 4 supervisor.
Business & Tech OpenAI Has Filed For an IPO, Company Says Timing Remains Up In the Air Following rumors about a pending IPO filing, and following the announcement of an IPO filing by competitor Anthropic, OpenAI has confirmed that it has made its confidential pre-IPO filing with the SEC.
Business & Tech Like OpenAI, Anthropic Makes SEC Filing Ahead of Possible IPO Days after Anthropic saw its valuation soar past competitor OpenAI, the company has made a confidential filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in preparation for a possible IPO.
Business & Tech Report: OpenAI Is About to File for an IPO A much-anticipated event in the tech world is nigh. OpenAI, which everyone has known is prepping for an IPO that should prove dramatic — and profitable for early employees like Sam Altman and Greg Brockman — may be preparing IPO paperwork in a matter of days or weeks.
Business & Tech Federal Jury and Judge Side With OpenAI, Dismissing Elon Musk's Case About Company's Nonprofit Mission A decision came down quickly in the federal court battle between OpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman, with the jury issuing a verdict Monday siding with Altman and OpenAI.
SF News Widow Sues ChatGPT For Aiding Gunman In Florida State University Mass Shooting A lawsuit was filed against OpenAI Sunday by the widow of a man killed in an April 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University, alleging ChatGPT advised the gunman on how to best carry out the shooting.
SF News 20-Year-Old Texas Man Accused of Firebombing Sam Altman's House Enters Not Guilty Plea The man accused of flying to San Francisco to try to save humanity from AI by tossing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house made a court appearance Tuesday and entered a plea of not guilty.
Business & Tech In OpenAI Trial, Elon Musk Really Wants Jury to Know That AI Might Kill Us All He may just be trying to prove a point for the sake of his case, but Elon Musk has reportedly been harping on AI doomsday scenarios in his federal court testimony.
Business & Tech Jury Selection Begins In Trial Pitting Elon Musk Against OpenAI What had sounded two years ago like a spat between billionaires over a business they both co-founded has now reached an actual courtroom and jury trial, with jury selection beginning Monday in the civil suit that Elon Musk brought against OpenAI.
Business & Tech Young Man Who Allegedly Came From Texas to Kill Sam Altman Makes Court Appearance on Attempted Murder Charge The man who allegedly tossed a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's Russian Hill home last Friday was scheduled to make his first court appearance Tuesday on attempted murder and other charges.
SF News Two Arrested In Shooting Near Sam Altman’s Home Following Separate Firebomb Attack A man and a woman were arrested on suspicion of firing a gun while driving past the Russian Hill property of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman early Sunday, two days after a different suspect, who is also in custody, allegedly threw a Molotov Cocktail at Altman’s house.
SF News Suspect In Sam Altman Molotov Cocktail Attack Identified, Charged With Attempted Murder The 20-year-old suspect who allegedly threw a Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman’s house and was later arrested outside OpenAI’s headquarters was identified as a man from Texas who was charged with attempted murder, arson, and several other charges.
SF News Molotov Cocktail Thrown at Sam Altman's House, Suspect Arrested Outside OpenAI Headquarters OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home was targeted by a suspect early Friday morning, and that suspect then proceeded to head to OpenAI's offices, where he allegedly was ranting about burning the place down.
SF News OpenAI to Expand to East Bay With Plans For Huge New Robotics Facility OpenAI signed a new lease on a 202,000-square-foot waterfront site near the Richmond ferry terminal in its first East Bay expansion, and it’s believed the company will be opening a robotics facility there.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bill Cosby to Pay $59 Million In 1972 Sexual Assault of Sausalito Waitress A San Jose daycare owner was convicted in the 2023 drowning of two toddlers; OpenAI pledged $1 billion in grant funding utilizing AI to advance life sciences, community programs, and other fields; and Bill Cosy was ordered to pay $59.25 million in damages to a former Sausalito waitress.
SF News Sunday Links: 400 TSA Agents Have Quit, Leading to Long Airport Lines and Trump May Send ICE A judge dismissed a sexual abuse lawsuit against Sam Altman by his sister but said she could refile under a different statute; kids entertainer Ms. Rachel aims to free children from ICE detention centers; and Trump may send ICE to airports, as 400 TSA agents have quit.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Posts Tone-Deaf Tweet Thanking Coders For Making Themselves Obsolete OpenAI CEO Sam Altman probably should have kept his thoughts to himself Tuesday morning. But instead, like his rival Elon Musk often does, he took to Xitter to say something utterly tone-deaf about the present moment.
Business & Tech Meta Acquires 'Social Network for AI Agents' Moltbook, While OpenAI Hires One of Its Vibe Coders Yes, we are apparently arriving at the day, or we've already arrived there, when AI agents interact with one another and "gossip" about their respective systems on a social networking platform.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Admits Friday Pentagon Deal Was Rushed, Adds More Safeguards to Contract Continuing the tradition of tech CEOs appearing to be transparent performing their mea culpas on social media, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to Xitter Monday to say a few things about that rushed Friday deal with the Pentagon, following the collapse of a deal with Anthropic.
Business & Tech East Bay Man Scraps Ballot Measures Due to Pressure from OpenAI, Says He Was ‘Naive’ for Trying An East Bay man says OpenAI pressured him into dropping two AI ballot measures he introduced that would’ve created stricter regulations after it was revealed he’s the stepbrother of a senior Anthropic employee, but he says he wrote the proposals himself — with legal help from chatbots.
SF News OpenAI Makes Deal With Pentagon, Including Safeguards Anthropic Requested Before Ban Just a couple hours after Trump announced the federal government was cutting ties with Anthropic for refusing to grant the Pentagon full access to its tools Friday, Sam Altman announced OpenAI received the contract instead, which includes the safeguards Anthropic was denied.
Business & Tech ChatGPT Has Now Been Used In Two High-Profile, Violent Attacks, Raising Serious Safety and Liability Questions Not only did the unstable Green Beret with PTSD who blew up his Tesla outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas last year use ChatGPT to plan his attack, the Canadian woman who committed a mass school shooting earlier this month also asked the chatbot for help.
Business & Tech AI Insiders Are Sounding Alarms, and the Guy Who Wrote That Viral Post Says He's Not Being Alarmist Is AI coming for most of your jobs? Maybe not. But some of them? Yes, probably. And we're seeing another wave of AI industry insiders speaking out publicly and making some grave statements.
Business & Tech Forget the 'Crypto Bowl,' This Super Bowl Will Be Chock Full of AI Ads — Here Are Five of Them Expect all the big players in AI to be spending lavishly on ads during the Super Bowl this year, including rivals OpenAI and Anthropic — with the latter taking not one but two swings at its bigger competitor.
