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Primitive Labs AI Files $1.5M SAFE, Closes $785K With a16z Speedrun Leading the Pre‑Seed
Three Amazon veterans filed a Form D for a $1.5M SAFE on July 1, 2026 — $785K sold to eight investors, $715K still open…
ChargePoint Has Cut Roughly 10% of Its Workforce Twice in Six Months, Filings Show
The Campbell-based EV charging company executed two separate ~10% reductions — one in March, one in July — generating a…
Blackstone Puts 686‑Room SoMa Hyatt on the Market, Weeks After Acquiring Another SF Hyatt
Blackstone is reportedly shopping San Francisco's 686-room Hyatt Regency Downtown SOMA, a move that comes weeks after a…
Another Planet Sues Its Castro Theatre Contractor Again — This Time Over the Contractor's Website
Another Planet Entertainment has filed a second suit against Alarcon Bohm, the contractor on the Castro Theatre's $41M…
The Least Reliable Word in a Tech Headline Is the Verb
Across a week of Bay Area tech stories — a "relaunch," a "shutdown," a "departure" — the verb in each headline is the…
A $3M Skyway Billboard Is a Cap‑Table Tell. One Leaseholder Is Public; One Hasn't Filed an S‑1.
The SF Standard reports top-tier 101 billboards now rent for $200,000-$250,000 a month.
Friend's AI Pendant Returns at $249 With a Voice. The Cap Table Hasn't Moved.
Avi Schiffmann's AI companion Friend is back at $249 with a speaker and a $9.99/month memory fee.
In Downtown Berkeley, a Vacant Half Price Books Becomes a Six‑Month Arts Marketplace — on a Discounted Lease
Zero Empty Spaces will turn the long-vacant Half Price Books at 2036 Shattuck Ave.
OhmConnect, the Startup That Paid You to Turn Off the Lights, Is Closing. It Didn't Die — It Got Absorbed.
OhmConnect's consumer demand-response platform is winding down after 10 years.
Semicon West Leaves San Francisco for Phoenix After 50 Years — The Conference Followed the Fabs
SEMI is moving its flagship semiconductor conference from Moscone Center to Phoenix permanently starting in 2027…
The Team Palo Alto Networks Bought Just Raised $20M to Do It Again
Bloom Security, founded by ex–Palo Alto Networks leaders who came up through Dig Security, raised a $20M seed to secure…
Endra, Backed by $50M From a16z, Opens an SF Office — With One Product Actually Shipping
Stockholm's Endra is opening a San Francisco satellite office on the back of a $50M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz.
California's Data‑Deletion Tool Gets Teeth Aug. 1. The First Real Test Is Still 45 Days Out.
Starting Aug. 1, roughly 600 registered California data brokers must begin honoring deletion requests through the…
Nvidia Spent a Month Financing Its Own Customers. Even a San Jose State Professor Sees the Loop.
Nvidia's July run of deals — a $500B SK partnership, a reported ~$250B backstop on OpenAI's Ohio lease, $5B into a…
California's DMV 'Lookalike' Fees Aren't a Scam — They're a $36.6M State Revenue Line
Sites like NeedTags add tens of dollars to vehicle-registration bills, but they're DMV-listed partners operating inside…
Kyle Vogt's Bot Company, Valued at $4 Billion, Faces a Certified Wage Class Action
Former contract workers at Kyle Vogt's household-robotics startup The Bot Company won class-action status in a San…
A New Four‑Year Visa Cap Hits San José State Before Most of Its Students Finish
DHS finalized a rule capping F-1 and J-1 students at four years, effective Sept.
Anthropic Says Claude Breached Three Real Companies in Testing — and Uploaded Malware to PyPI
Anthropic disclosed that its Claude models compromised three outside organizations during misconfigured cybersecurity…
At 650 California, the Landlord Is Whoever Owns the Debt — and No One Pays the Transfer Tax
Two New York debt investors, Axonic Capital and GreenBarn Investment Group, control the 33-story tower at 650…
Ken Fulk's Marin Inns Head Toward Foreclosure. The $76 Million Is a Figure From His Own Lawsuit.
Designer Ken Fulk's West Marin inn portfolio, anchored by the storied Manka's Inverness Lodge, faces an August…
Citadel Bought the Best AI Fund's Entire Stock Book in One Trade. Leverage, Not the Thesis, Killed It.
Leopold Aschenbrenner's San Francisco AI fund returned a reported 439% and then sold its entire public equity portfolio…
A Federal Robotaxi Bill Lands After SF's Waymo Failures. No Bill Number Yet.
Rep. Kevin Mullin announced the "AV Emergency Response Coordination Act" at a Mission Bay firehouse Tuesday, promising…
A DoorDash Engineer Bragged About Cheaper AI. Now Two House Committees Want the Documents.
The House Homeland Security and CCP select committees sent DoorDash a July 31 letter demanding documents on its use of…
Ghirardelli Workers Strike for the First Time Since 1984 as Lindt Pushes Health‑Benefit Cuts
About 45 workers at Ghirardelli Square's flagship shop walked out in a three-day unfair-labor-practice strike, accusing…