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Hillsborough Lists at $40M, Betting on AI Founder Cash to Beat Elon Musk's Record
PublishedA new Hillsborough mansion at 455 Pinehill Road hit the market last month at just under $40 million — which would set a…
SF's AI Transparency Law Doesn't Touch the Companies That Built the Boom
PublishedThe city's January 2026 AI ordinance covers government departments only.
SFUSD's $1.36 Billion Budget Squeaked Through 4-3. The Math Gets Harder in 2028.
PublishedSan Francisco Unified's board voted 4-3 Tuesday to approve a $1.36 billion operating budget — with the margin explained…
Three Accounts for the AI Build-Out: Labor, the Environment, and Public Contracts
PublishedOracle charged 21,000 jobs. OpenAI wants 9.2 GW of natural gas. An SF official steered $10M to friends. The week's…
OpenAI Is in Talks to Anchor a 10-GW Ohio Data Center. 9.2 GW Would Run on Natural Gas.
PublishedThe SF-based company is the prospective anchor tenant for the PORTS Technology Campus in Piketon, Ohio — one of the…
The Institutions Are Making One Bet. Oracle's Filing Describes a Different One.
PublishedBay Area institutions spent the week publicly betting on AI as a creator of human opportunity.
Third Coast Foundry Opens in SoMa — Lurie's Midwest Pipeline Play, One Year After Northwestern Left
PublishedEight Midwestern universities opened a shared entrepreneurship hub in San Francisco's South Beach neighborhood Tuesday…
Oracle's Annual Filing Puts a Number on Its AI Trade: 21,000 Jobs for $55.7B in Capex
PublishedOracle's fiscal year 2026 10-K, filed Monday, reveals the company shed 21,000 workers — nearly 13% of its global…
City Controller Audit Confirms SF Tax Official Rigged $10M Contract Bid for AI Startup Run by Friends
PublishedAn independent audit by the SF City Controller's Office confirms that former chief assistant treasurer Tajel Shah…
The Round Is the Milestone Now
PublishedThree Bay Area companies announced institutional achievements this week — a raise, a factory opening, a Nasdaq listing.
Berkeley's $3 Billion AI Mining Company Has a Zambia-Sized Asterisk
PublishedKoBold Metals, headquartered above a Berkeley tattoo parlor and backed by Bezos, Gates, Altman and Andreessen, raised…
Smartbird CEO: The Real Asset Was the Nasdaq Listing, Not the Shoes
PublishedNew CEO Nadia Carlsten, appointed June 17, explains in her first extended interview why Allbirds' public company shell…
KGO/ABC 7 Asks Bay Area Viewers to File FCC Comments as License Deadline Looms
PublishedBay Area's ABC affiliate launched a viewer-advocacy campaign Monday ahead of a June 29 deadline in the FCC's…
Muon Space Opens 130,000-Square-Foot Satellite Factory in San Jose
PublishedThe four-year-old startup, backed by $181M in equity and credit, opened a 10x-larger manufacturing facility in San Jose…
JetBlue's Surveillance Pricing Lawsuit Names a Vendor the FTC Already Subpoenaed
PublishedA landmark class action accuses JetBlue of using PROS Holdings software to set individualized fares from behavioral…
Three Dispatches, One Economy: What Lucid, Fremont, and the AI Boom's Map Have in Common
PublishedRead together, Monday's stories on Lucid's layoffs, the Fremont tote line, and SF's record office quarter describe the…
Lucid Motors Cuts 1,400 Jobs in Second Major Round This Year as New CEO Halts Production Shift
PublishedLucid Group has eliminated roughly 18% of its workforce — the second significant round in four months — under CEO…
Oakland's Own Economic Chief Admits It's a "Spillover Market." The AI Boom May Never Spill.
PublishedSan Francisco is absorbing record office demand without running out of space — which means Oakland's historic role as…
Devers Defies Vitello Mid-Game, Giants Hit Season-Low 31-46
PublishedRafael Devers waved off a pinch runner twice and stormed off the field Sunday in Miami, capping a series sweep that…
Trader Joe's $2.99 Mini Totes Drove a Pre-Dawn Line in Fremont. The Company Won't Say How Many It Printed.
PublishedThe third edition of Trader Joe's pastel mini tote dropped June 17; by Saturday morning, 80-plus people were queuing at…
The Store on Polk Street and the List No One Was Supposed to Find
PublishedFrom Manny Mashouf's Polk Street boutique to the Dialog member list to the NYT's abandoned $500K studio, the week's Bay…
From Polk Street to the Forbes 400: The Bebe Founder Who Did It Without VC
PublishedManny Mashouf opened a women's clothing shop on Polk Street in 1976 with no venture backing and built Bebe Stores into…
The Studio, the Tax, and the Member List: Three Capture Mechanisms, One Structural Failure
PublishedThe NYT's unfinished podcast studio, SF's real estate transfer tax, and Dialog's $16,000 social gate all failed the…
NYT's 'Hard Fork' Hosts Are Out — and the $500K Studio It Built for Them Isn't Even Finished
PublishedKevin Roose is leaving the New York Times and Casey Newton is stepping down from the paper's AI podcast "Hard Fork,"…