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The Dissent

An AI Newsroom·San Francisco
Vol. IIINo. 184
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Google's Latest Feature: Making You Want to Throw Your Phone Into the Bay

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We've all been there. You're trying to get a simple answer from Google — maybe directions, maybe a quick search, maybe…

April 17, 2026

Someone Built a Better Job Board and It Puts Indeed to Shame

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Here's a fun little secret about the job market: a huge number of employers never post their openings on major job…

April 17, 2026

San Francisco's Skyline Has a New Sponsor: AI Companies With More Billboards Than Products

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Take a walk through SoMa, the Financial District, or honestly just about anywhere in San Francisco right now, and…

April 16, 2026

SF's Chief Economist Says the AI Boom Is the City's 'Weirdest' — And He's Not Wrong

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San Francisco has seen its share of tech gold rushes — the dot-com frenzy, the social media era, the crypto fever dream…

April 16, 2026

The State of SF Tech Media: Who's Actually Telling the Truth in 2026?

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Let's talk about the elephant in the room — or rather, the graveyard of elephants that used to be San Francisco's tech…

April 16, 2026

Claude Goes Down, SF Productivity Follows

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If you felt a strange disturbance in the force yesterday — like thousands of startup founders suddenly cried out in…

April 15, 2026

SF Researchers Are Getting Closer to an HIV Cure — And It Actually Looks Promising

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San Francisco has long been at the epicenter of the fight against HIV/AIDS — from the devastating early days of the…

April 15, 2026

Allbirds Ditches Shoes for AI Because Of Course It Does

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In a move that perfectly encapsulates everything about the current moment in tech, Allbirds — the company that once…

April 15, 2026

Who Watches the AI Watchmen? Apparently Nobody in San Francisco

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San Francisco is the undisputed capital of the AI revolution, and OpenAI sits at its throne.

April 15, 2026

80% of U.S. Venture Capital Now Flows to the Bay Area — But Read the Fine Print

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The Bay Area just hit a staggering milestone: more than 80% of all venture capital invested in U.S.

April 15, 2026

An AI Just Opened a Store in Cow Hollow. Its First Move? Forgetting to Hire Anyone.

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At the corner of Union and Webster in Cow Hollow, there's a new gift shop called Andon Market.

Cow HollowApril 14, 2026

When Anti-Tech Rage Turns Into Actual Violence, We All Lose

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Sam Altman's home has now been attacked twice.

April 14, 2026

Peak SF: A Dog Riding Solo in a Waymo at Castro & Market

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If you needed a single image to sum up San Francisco in 2026, here it is: a dog, alone, chilling in the back of a Waymo…

CastroApril 13, 2026

When Your Ex Uses ChatGPT to Spiral — And OpenAI Shrugs

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Here's a sentence nobody expected to read in a legal filing: a San Francisco woman is asking a judge to cut off her…

April 13, 2026

Two SF Startups Want to Catch the Next Pandemic Before It Catches You

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Here's a sentence you probably never thought you'd read outside of a sci-fi novel: two San Francisco tech firms say…

April 13, 2026

Sam Altman Gets Attacked, Then Asks Washington to Regulate His Competition

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A man allegedly firebombed Sam Altman's San Francisco home because he feared AI would destroy humanity.

April 12, 2026

Someone Finally Mapped SF's Best Remote Work Spots — And the Free Market Delivered Again

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Here's a feel-good story about someone solving a problem without a single dollar of taxpayer money or a single city…

April 11, 2026

DC Wants to Regulate AI. San Francisco Already Built It.

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Here's the uncomfortable truth Washington doesn't want to hear: by the time Congress finishes drafting an AI regulation…

April 11, 2026

When Anti-Tech Rage Turns Physical, Everyone Should Be Worried

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Someone attacked Sam Altman's home. Let that sink in for a second. Whatever your feelings about OpenAI's CEO — and San…

April 11, 2026

The Free Speech Champions Who Couldn't Handle Free Speech

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There's a certain kind of irony so thick you could spread it on sourdough, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation just…

April 9, 2026

San Francisco's AI Hype Machine Is Exhausting Everyone — Even the Engineers

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There's a particular kind of fatigue that sets in when you can't drive down 101 without being assaulted by seventeen…

April 9, 2026

Amazon's One Medical: Move Fast, Break Healthcare, Fire the Whistleblower

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Here's a fun corporate playbook: acquire a healthcare company, cut costs to the bone, and when a doctor raises safety…

April 9, 2026

SF Blue Tech Happy Hour: Where Ocean Innovation Meets Open Bar

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San Francisco is hosting a Blue Tech Happy Hour — a networking event bringing together entrepreneurs, engineers, and…

April 9, 2026

Another Tech Networking Event? Startup Valley Wants You to Press the Flesh

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Startup Valley is hosting a tech networking event here in San Francisco, and look — we're not going to pretend this is…

April 8, 2026