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Google's Military AI Dilemma: Why Walking Away Is the Easy — and Wrong — Answer
There's a comfortable narrative in Silicon Valley that goes something like this: AI companies should stay far, far away…
Sam Altman Wants to Own the News Too — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Sam Altman isn't content with building the most powerful AI on the planet.
Stop Blaming AI for Your Bad Business Decisions
Tech layoffs are piling up, and the industry has found its favorite scapegoat: artificial intelligence.
Block Cuts 4,000 Jobs and Can't Even Tell Us How Many Are Local
Here's a fun exercise in corporate transparency: Block Inc., the Oakland-based payments giant run by Jack Dorsey…
Silicon Valley's AI Anxiety Industry: Tech Workers Are Paying Therapists to Process Their Feelings About… Being Employed
Here's a sentence that could only come out of San Francisco in 2025: tech workers are flooding therapists' offices…
OpenAI's 'Child Safety' Coalition Is Just Corporate Astroturfing With Extra Steps
Here's a fun exercise in corporate trust-building: secretly bankroll a coalition of kids' advocacy groups, don't tell…
AI Meets Discount Retail: A Multibillion‑Dollar Robotics Firm Just Moved in Above Ross
If you've ever wrestled through the racks at the downtown Ross Dress for Less, hunting for a $12 blazer that almost…
Silicon Valley's Most Organic Perk: Free Psychedelics Growing in the Parking Lot
Forget the kombucha on tap and the artisanal snack bars.
SF Startup Raises $28.5M to Make Your Oscilloscope Obsolete
If you've ever watched an electrical engineer wrestle with a cart full of expensive, single-purpose test equipment —…
The Rumors of SF's Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
For the past few years, the hot take industrial complex has been churning out the same story on a loop: San Francisco…
SF Hackathon Baby 'Agency' Wants to Show You What Your AI Is Actually Doing
Somewhere between the cold brew and the 2am debugging sessions, a useful company was born.
Who's Actually Making Games? SF Devs Push to Rewrite the Industry's Origin Story
The video game industry generates more revenue than Hollywood and the NFL combined.
Tesla Will Now Haul Your 8‑Year‑Old Around — What Could Go Wrong?
Tesla quietly updated its terms of service to allow children as young as 8 to ride in its robotaxi service — as long as…
Tesla's Robotaxi Will Take Your 8‑Year‑Old for a Ride (With Adult Supervision, Obviously)
Tesla quietly updated its Robotaxi terms of service to allow riders as young as 8 years old — provided an adult comes…
Cruise's Robotaxis Are Back in the Daylight — Should SF Be Excited or Nervous?
The Machines Are Back, and Now They're Morning Commuters Cruise has quietly expanded its driverless robotaxi service to…
TechCrunch Disrupt Is Back — And This Time It Actually Has Something to Say
Love it or hate it, TechCrunch Disrupt is one of those events that still manages to pull the right people into the same…
Mayor Wants SF to Be a Tech Guinea Pig — This Time, We're Actually Into It
For once, a San Francisco politician is saying something we can actually get behind.
Claude Goes to War: Anthropic's Pentagon Deal Is a Mirror, Not an Anomaly
San Francisco's favorite "responsible AI" company is learning something the rest of us figured out a long time ago: in…
VC's Hangover Is Real, But Don't Write the Obituary Yet
San Francisco's venture capital machine has been running on fumes for a while now, and nobody's pretending otherwise.