Polymarket took $1. 2 million in wildfire bets during the 2025 LA fires. Nine Democratic senators gave the CFTC until today to shut such markets down — but Polymarket delisted them in January 2025, and the platform is now raising at a $20 billion valuation.
A viral r/bayarea post marveled at SFO's passport-free US citizen lanes as "AI/ESP scans." It's CBP's Simplified Arrival — a camera…
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Tesla and Jeff Bezos's stealth AI startup Project Prometheus are reportedly leasing space on the same West Oakland industrial campus at…
20h agoThree recent Bay Area financial events — an AI startup's Series B, a marine tech company's funding rounds, and a bank's…
Patronus AI announced a $50 million Series B on June 25, 2026, but no Form D has appeared in SEC EDGAR — more than six…
Alameda-based Navier is touting its $850,000 N30 electric hydrofoil yacht as a future of Bay Area water travel, but…
California's program to combat the grapevine-killing glassy-winged sharpshooter received $820,000 for 2024, but faces a…
Yuhuai Wu, a 31-year-old xAI cofounder, appears to be the buyer of a $70 million Hillsborough estate via a secretive…
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JPMorgan Chase announced $200 million in financing for a 342-unit SF apartment project and a $15 million investment in…
Lightspeed hired tech content creator Claire Zau as a partner and is building an in-house media arm to reach founders…
A gold-painted Tesla robotaxi drew crowds across San Francisco this week, but the company carries passengers here on a…
The Behring Company is pitching a former Berkeley Lab supercomputing building at 415 20th Street as an Oakland AI…
Little Maison, a coffee-and-toddler-play space, is under construction in Cow Hollow for a winter opening.
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Neko Health, the preventive body-scanning company founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, filed San Francisco building permits…
Salesforce named Reese Witherspoon to top the Dreamforce speaker bill.
About 3,500 San Jose city workers in IFPTE Local 21 and MEF-AFSCME Local 101 are voting this week on whether to…
Jury selection began Wednesday in the 29-state attorneys general trial against Meta in Oakland federal court (MDL 3047).
Google is running a limited desktop A/B test that, for signed-out users, replaces the classic Search button with three…
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Presidio Bay is spending roughly $100 million to turn 88 Spear Street — bought for a third of its 2014 price…
Realtors say expected OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs are helping drive pandemic expats back into a brutal SF rental market.
A California WARN notice for 93 permanent layoffs at Ubisoft's 300 Mission Street office took effect Aug.
OpenAI bought back $7 billion of employee shares at an $852 billion valuation — unchanged from its March round.
The nonprofit photography gallery at Fort Mason will shut after 52 years, citing rising costs and declining public…
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Nutanix, the publicly traded San Jose cloud-software company, filed a California WARN notice on Aug.
Lamont & Tonelli's exit from 107.7 The Bone after 37 years is being told as a farewell.
A new SFGATE interview revives the question of whether the Craigslist founder is still a billionaire.
Three precise figures ran as fact this week — a per-founder valuation, a seed round, a salary ranking.
The SF Standard put a number on Anthropic's eight founders: about $16.6 billion apiece.
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Another Planet's president told the SF Standard he's dreaming of Beyoncé and Bad Bunny in Golden Gate Park.
SF's "sexmaxxing" trend has a venture layer: Feel Peptides raised $3M led by Brian Sugar's Sugar Capital.
Billionaire tech investor scoops up another Fillmore building
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