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Beatrice Nolan

Attacks on Sam Altman's home are extreme. But the AI backlash is going mainstream

An AI protest (Credit: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing—Getty Images)

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. It’s Beatrice Nolan here, filling in today for AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition…OpenAI debuts its own highly-capable cybersecurity model…Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7…a startup wants to use AI to evaluate journalism in a way that freedom of the press advocates fear will chill reporting that relies on whistleblowers.

On Friday, a man hurled a Molotov cocktail at the gate in front of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house. Daniel Moreno-Gama, 20, from Spring, Texas, was arrested on suspicion of the attack an hour later. At the time, he was outside OpenAI’s headquarters, allegedly trying to smash his way in with a chair.

On Sunday, two more people were arrested after a gun was fired near Altman’s property (it remains unclear whether that shooting was targeting Altman in any way).

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