The AI boom is reshaping San Francisco’s economy. Renters are feeling it first
Published Aug. 3, 2026at9:00am San Francisco’s economy is on the upswing. Office leasing is up, and rents are…
The billboard promises a new AI chatbot. It’s really just one guy typing
Published Aug. 4, 2026at5:37pm Claude and ChatGPT, meet your new competition: Tucker Bryant. A 32-year-old former Google employee…
SF’s July 4 chaos: Bad planning, dead Waymos, and 1,000 people waiting for a bus
Published Aug. 4, 2026at6:00amUpdated Aug. 4, 2026at10:09am On the evening of July 4, a group of San Francisco…
$30 an Hour Buys a Robot Housekeeper in San Francisco
Tau Robotics began sending humanoid robots into San Francisco homes in late July for $30-an-hour cleaning visits, ABC7…
How do California’s gubernatorial candidates stack up on AI & tech policy?
As California voters weigh who should lead the nation’s largest state, technology policy is emerging as one of…
Many want a global treaty to govern AI risk. California and New York may already be writing it.
On July 16, roughly 200 delegates, including Nobel laureates and former heads of state and government, signed a…
SF’s ‘most hated tech founder’ is back with a new AI device— and now it can talk
Published Aug. 2, 2026at6:00am Last year, I wrote about Avi Schiffmann and his quest to build Friend, a…
Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion funding round for Valar Atomics
Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion funding round for Valar Atomics Inc. that the nuclear startup says will…
Anthropic’s Claude goes rogue and hacks three organizations during testing
Another leading artificial intelligence company unveiled details of its cutting-edge bot apparently going rogue. On Thursday, Anthropic said…
ServiceNow cuts nearly 300 jobs in Silicon Valley
More tech layoffs are hitting Silicon Valley this week in its latest string of job losses. Santa Clara-based…
Column: In the voting booth, it’s the year of the not-at-all-close call
This week the Michigan Chronicle, the oldest Black newspaper in the state, endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens for the…
People can’t stop AI-generating San Francisco
On social media, San Francisco’s housing warriors are trading AI-generated pictures of upzoned neighborhoods like barbs — either…