Early Friday morning, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home. No one was hurt. The suspect was arrested shortly after at OpenAI's headquarters, where he had been threatening to burn the building down. The timing is not coincidental. Days earlier, the New Yorker published an in-depth profile of Altman written by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz. After speaking with more than 100 people familiar with his conduct, they portrayed someone with an unusual will to power who, according to one anonymous former board member, combines a need to be liked with a "sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences of deceiving someone." Altman responded with a blog post written in the middle of the night, openly frustrated. He acknowledged underestimating the power of words and narratives. He admitted mistakes, particularly a tendency to avoid conflict, which he says caused "great pain for me and OpenAI." He referred indirectly to the 2023 episode when he was fired and reinstated as CEO within days, saying he was not proud of how he handled it. He used a Lord of the Rings metaphor to describe the dynamics between AI companies: the problem isn't AGI itself, but the obsession with being the one to control it. His proposed answer is to share the technology broadly so no one ends up holding the ring. He closed by calling for de-escalation, less inflammatory rhetoric, and, literally, fewer explosions in people's homes. https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/11/sam-altman-responds-to-incendiary-new-yorker-article-after-attack-on-his-home/