Sam Altman Returns to the Spotlight as Hollywood and Tech Collide at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony

And then there was Sam Altman, making one of his first public appearances since a man allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at the gate to his San Francisco home. The OpenAI CEO told VF that things have been “up and down, but calm enough,” after the incident, adding “it was a really difficult thing.”

Altman has linked the April 10 attack on his home in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood to a surge of media scrutiny, including a report published on April 6 by The New Yorker,…