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Sam Altman's San Francisco home was targeted twice in 48 hours, with a Molotov cocktail on Friday and gunshots fired Sunday. Two suspects are in custody, but the bigger story is what these attacks reveal about rising public hostility toward AI leadership. Let’s dive in!
In today’s insights:
Sam Altman’s home targeted in second attack
DeepMind CEO sees a decade that rewrites everything
Everyone at HumanX was talking about Claude
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Evolving AI: Two attacks on Sam Altman's San Francisco home in 48 hours mark a new phase in public hostility toward AI leadership.
Key Points:
Sunday's incident saw a passenger fire a gun at Altman's Russian Hill property from a passing car.
Two suspects were arrested and three firearms were seized from their home.
The attack followed a Friday Molotov cocktail incident at the same property.
Details:
Within 46 hours, Sam Altman's home was struck twice. Friday brought a flaming bottle thrown at the gate by an alleged Texas attacker. Sunday brought a Honda sedan, a hand out a passenger window, and a single gunshot captured on surveillance. Police arrested two people and recovered three firearms. The motives remain unclear, but Altman wrote after Friday's attack that anxiety about AI is justified and society is facing its largest change ever. No injuries occurred in either incident.
Why It Matters:
Tech CEOs have long drawn protests, but coordinated physical attacks on their homes are rare. The Altman incidents echo a pattern seen with healthcare and energy executives when industries collide with public anger. If AI is reshaping work, identity, and power as fast as Altman claims, the people steering it may face a level of hostility Silicon Valley has never had to plan for.
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Evolving AI: DeepMind's Demis Hassabis says AGI could compress ten industrial revolutions into a single decade.
Key Points:
Anthropic filed a copyright request to remove more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the Claude Code instructions from GitHub
One programmer used AI tools to rewrite the leaked code in different languages to keep it accessible despite the takedowns
The leak exposes the "harness" Anthropic uses to control its models as coding agents — including a "dreaming" function for task consolidation
Details:
Speaking on the 20VC podcast, Hassabis laid out his sharpest framing yet. "I sometimes quantify AGI as 10 times the industrial revolution at 10 times the speed," he said, meaning a century of change packed into ten years. He still thinks we need real breakthroughs in continuous learning, memory, and long-term planning. Today's models, he says, are "jagged intelligences" that nail one prompt and fumble a slight rewording of it. Scaling helps but is slowing a bit.
Why It Matters:
Hassabis is the field's measured voice. A Nobel laureate who has publicly disagreed with shorter Altman and Musk timelines, he is repeatedly described as more conservative than his peers. His DeepMind estimate has held steady since 2010. When that person calls for ten compressed revolutions, the forecast carries weight others' don't.
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Evolving AI: At this year's HumanX conference in San Francisco, one chatbot kept stealing the spotlight, and it wasn't ChatGPT.
Key Points:
Claude dominated panel mentions and vendor chatter throughout the week.
ChatGPT was strangely absent from the conversation, with some saying OpenAI has "fallen off".
OpenAI is fighting back with a new $100 ChatGPT tier built around its Codex coding tool.
Details:
Thousands of techies packed the Moscone Center to talk agentic AI, and Anthropic's Claude came up again and again. Vendors on the floor openly said they had switched, with one telling reporters his team felt OpenAI had gone downhill. Meanwhile OpenAI is dealing with a rough patch. It dropped side projects like Sora, faced a tough New Yorker profile of Sam Altman, and drew criticism for ads in ChatGPT and ties to the Trump administration. Still, both firms are growing faster than any tech business in history.
Why It Matters:
The vibe shift at conferences often signals where enterprise dollars will follow. Claude's rise among business users shows that being first no longer guarantees staying on top in AI. OpenAI is still huge, but the "default chatbot" crown is suddenly up for grabs. Could developer trust be the new moat?
This week the AI film world got its most ambitious release yet.
Zack London, better known as Gossip Goblin, dropped The Patchwright, a 21-minute sci-fi short set in the slag heaps of NiiroCradle where an engineer repairs the broken bodies and minds of a dying underworld. The Hollywood Reporter recently called him the George Lucas of AI, and after five months of production with real voice actors, a foley artist and an original score, it shows.
“Yeah but, AI can’t even generate hands” is now definitely a thing of the past.
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