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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…

TechJuly 31, 2026

A Rockridge Diner Is Hanging Carol Scott's East Bay Concert Photos — Through Aug. 5

British photographer Carol Scott shot the East Bay's music rooms from 1976 to 1985 — Dylan at the Berkeley Community…

CultureJuly 31, 2026

A 1932 Finnish Workers' Hall in West Berkeley Spends the Weekend on Harsh Noise

The 23rd Outsound New Music Summit fills Finnish Hall at 1970 Chestnut St this weekend — four programs of experimental…

CultureJuly 31, 2026

An Underground Vault Fire at Haight and Cole Cleared the Block Before Dawn — 75 Left Without Power

An underground PG&E vault fire at Haight and Cole streets in the Upper Haight briefly forced neighbors to shelter in…

CultureJuly 31, 2026

On a San Bruno Block Three Miles From SFO, Driverless Cars Keep Leaving Travelers With Their Luggage

For about two weeks, residents of the 500 block of Seventh Avenue in San Bruno's Belle Air Park say driverless Waymos…

CultureJuly 31, 2026

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…

TechJuly 31, 2026

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…

TechJuly 31, 2026

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.

TechJuly 31, 2026

A Luis Valdez Documentary Runs Three Art‑House Corners This Weekend — the Mission, Elmwood, Fourth Street

David Alvarado's "American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez" opened at the Roxie and plays the Rialto Elmwood in…

CultureJuly 31, 2026

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…

TechJuly 31, 2026

Oklava Cafe Opens Inside Saluhall, the Turquaz Team's Bet on a Struggling Food Hall

Oklava Cafe, a Turkish all-day cafe from the team behind SoMa's Turquaz, opened July 7 on the ground floor of Saluhall…

FoodJuly 31, 2026

Leo's Oyster Bar Closes in the Financial District After a Decade

Anna Weinberg's Ken Fulk-designed Champagne-and-oyster bar at 568 Sacramento Street went dark when its lease ran out…

FoodJuly 31, 2026

The North Face Closed Its Last Berkeley Store on Fifth Street — the One We Reported Was Still Open

The North Face's outlet at 1238 Fifth St.

CultureJuly 31, 2026

California's Quiet Fire Year Faces Its First Real Test as a Peak‑Season Heat Wave Arrives

California has burned about 208,000 acres so far in 2026 — a mild tally by recent standards — but a long-duration heat…

PoliticsJuly 31, 2026

UC Opened Its Doors to a Record Number of Californians. Berkeley Kept Closing Them.

The University of California admitted a record 102,031 California first-year students for fall 2026 — but its Bay Area…

PoliticsJuly 31, 2026

Oakland DOJ Wrings $15M and a Three‑Year Monitor From Nursing Chain That Understaffed 14,000 Times

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has secured a $15 million Medi-Cal settlement from Sweetwater Care, a 17-facility…

PoliticsJuly 31, 2026

Santa Clara County Logs the Bay Area's First Human West Nile Cases of 2026 — as Bird and Mosquito Infections Surge Region‑Wide

Two Santa Clara County residents have become the Bay Area's first confirmed human West Nile virus cases of 2026 — but…

PoliticsJuly 31, 2026

Wanted, One Kayaker: The Trash Pandas Want to Film What's Under the Cerrito Creek Bridges

The East Bay Trash Pandas are recruiting a volunteer to paddle Cerrito Creek under the I-580 and I-80 bridge complexes…

CultureJuly 31, 2026

The Glow‑Up Bench: A Reddit Clip Made Muttville's Volunteer Groomer an "Angel." The Salon Behind It Is on Florida Street.

A viral r/bayarea post cast volunteer groomer Cindy Perry as a "self-taught angel" grooming senior dogs for free.

CultureJuly 31, 2026

While Monarchs Vanish, Their Orange Lookalike Is Swarming the Sierra by the Million

A native butterfly that most Californians can't name is having the kind of year monarchs no longer do: California…

PoliticsJuly 31, 2026

Giants Move to Suspend Harrison Bader's Pay in a Scooter‑Crash Contract Fight

The San Francisco Giants say they will stop paying outfielder Harrison Bader, who reinjured his already-fragile left…

PoliticsJuly 31, 2026

Feds Move to Let Robotaxis Drop the Brake Pedal — and the Wheel‑Free Cars Already Roam SF

Federal regulators cleared Amazon's Zoox to start charging fares in cars built with no steering wheel — and proposed…

PoliticsJuly 31, 2026

Caltrain's Retired Diesels Now Earn It $2.14 Million a Year Hauling Amtrak Riders to Sacramento

Three of the diesel locomotives Caltrain retired when it went electric are back at work on the other side of the Bay —…

PoliticsJuly 31, 2026

A $500,000 DOJ Grant Vanished From SF's Asian Women's Shelter — and Washington Wants to Make That Easier

Last spring, a letter from the Justice Department told San Francisco's Asian Women's Shelter that the $500,000 grant…

PoliticsJuly 31, 2026