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A 15-Year-Old Built a Tow Truck Tracker. SF Shut It Down in 3 Hours.
A 15-year-old kid, bored on a weekend, did what the city of San Francisco apparently finds terrifying: he made public data actually useful. The teen built a tr...
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The Secondary Share Market Is Booming — And It's About Time
If you've ever worked at a San Francisco startup, you know the drill. You get offered equity as part of your comp package, told it could be worth a fortune "som...
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Billionaire Slap Fight: The OpenAI Trial Nobody Deserves
The tech world's messiest divorce is playing out in a federal courtroom, and honestly, we're all worse off for having to watch. Sam Altman took the stand this...
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Cloudflare Cuts 21% of Its Workforce, Blames the Robots It's Building
There's a grim irony when a tech company lays off hundreds of human workers to restructure around artificial intelligence. Cloudflare, the San Francisco-based n...
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86% of Bay Area Billboards Are Now AI Ads. One Student Is Keeping Receipts.
Drive down the 101 these days and you'd be forgiven for thinking you accidentally entered a Black Mirror episode sponsored by venture capital. AI billboards hav...
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Reports of SaaS's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated — Just Ask This $2.75B SF Startup
Every few months, someone in tech media publishes a breathless obituary for SaaS. AI is going to eat it alive, they say. Why pay for software subscriptions when...
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Mercor: Where $10 Billion Buys You 2 AM Shifts and a Survey Asking You to Snitch on Coworkers
There's a special kind of Silicon Valley hubris that comes with being a 23-year-old billionaire — the kind that apparently makes you think it's a good idea to s...
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Six Years, Zero Promotions: The Career Trap Nobody Talks About
Here's a story that should make every San Francisco worker uncomfortable: a fintech professional — six years at the same company, stuck at the analyst level, re...
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An AI Store Manager Just Had a Baby. Happy Mother's Day, I Guess.
If you thought San Francisco's tech scene couldn't get any more absurd, allow us to introduce you to the latest development: an AI store manager has spawned a "...
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The $250 Bridge Mystery: One Cyclist's Quest to Return Lost AirPods on the 101
Here's a small story that honestly restored a sliver of our faith in Bay Area humanity. A cyclist crossing the Highway 101 pedestrian bridge in Sunnyvale spott...
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$40 Million to Train Workers for the AI Economy — But Will It Actually Work?
Tipping Point Community just raised $40 million to prepare Bay Area workers for the AI economy, anchored by a $25 million donation from the Sobrato family and t...
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First You Learn to Code, Then the Code Learns to Code — So Now We Hike
There's a weekday hiking group in the Bay Area that's become something of a phenomenon. It's specifically for people who've been laid off. Last week, about 90 p...
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Level Up: SF's Spring Game Arts & Design Showcase Is Worth Your Time
San Francisco's Spring 2026 Game Arts & Design Showcase is heading our way, and it's one of those local events that deserves more attention than it usually gets...
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DoorDash's Delivery Robots Are Coming to SF. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
DoorDash is gearing up to unleash delivery robots on the streets of San Francisco, and we have... questions. The concept is straightforward enough: autonomous...
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The 'I Totally Quit' Tech Worker Who Still Hangs Outside Her Old Office at 8AM
There's a genre of content that's become inescapable in the Bay Area: the tech worker departure video. You know the ones — someone films themselves walking out...
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Why a Smarter AI Might Actually Be Good News for Cybersecurity (For Once)
In a tech landscape where every other headline is about data breaches, ransomware attacks, and your grandma's email getting compromised, here's something refres...
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Coinbase Dumps 700 Workers, Discovers AI Is the New Crypto
In a move that surprises absolutely no one who's been watching Silicon Valley's latest obsession cycle, Coinbase — the crypto giant that once called San Francis...
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A 'Tech Map' From 2006 That Probably Isn't — And What It Actually Tells Us
A map purporting to show the Bay Area tech landscape circa 2006 has been making the rounds online, and it's a fun little time capsule — or it would be, if it we...
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Waymo's Dirty Secret: SF's Robot Taxis Are Basically Rolling Frat Parties
San Francisco loves to market itself as the gleaming capital of AI innovation. Tourism guides now literally recommend Waymo rides as a must-do activity — right...
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Two Billionaires Walk Into a Courtroom: The OpenAI Trial That Could Reshape SF's AI Empire
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are airing their dirty laundry in court, and the rest of San Francisco's AI industry is nervously watching from the sidelines. Musk, w...
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Waymo Steals Your Luggage, Then Offers to Let You Pay for Shipping
A San Jose airport passenger recently learned the hard way that the robot car revolution still has a few bugs to work out — specifically, the one where your rid...
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Elon vs. Sam: The Billionaire Beef That Won't Die
If you've been following the Musk-Altman courtroom saga — and honestly, who in this city hasn't at least stress-scrolled through the highlights — Day Three deli...
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Another Tech Conference Nobody Asked For Is Coming to the Bay
Media startup Semafor — the company that's been building a name for itself with its Washington D.C. economic gatherings — is apparently heading west to launch a...
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Berkeley Wants to Teach People How to Govern AI — But Who Governs the Governors?
UC Berkeley is hosting an AI Governance Workshop aimed at bridging the gap between research and policy — a noble goal in a world where legislators can barely ex...
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AI Tractor Startup Burns Through $240 Million, Leaves Nothing But Tire Tracks
Another day, another Bay Area startup that raised a quarter-billion dollars and has absolutely nothing to show for it. Monarch Tractor — the Livermore-based co...
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Record Profits, Pink Slips: Big Tech's New Normal Is Here to Stay
Let's dispense with the polite fiction that tech layoffs are about hard times. They're not. They never were. Big Tech is posting record revenues — we're talkin...
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Waymos Are Blocking Firehouses and Freezing in Intersections — and It's Getting Worse
Here's a question that shouldn't be hard: Should a robot car know not to park in front of a fire station? Apparently, for Waymo, this remains an unsolved probl...
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Travis Kalanick Fled to Texas, But Came Crawling Back to SF for His Launch Party
Look, we get it. Texas has no state income tax, cheaper real estate, and you can probably get a table at a restaurant without selling a kidney. That's why Travi...
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A $3.5 Billion Drone Factory — Right Here on the Peninsula
In an era when most companies are sprinting toward low-cost states to build their factories, Skydio is doing something genuinely surprising: doubling down on th...
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Mars Rover Spotted in Pacifica — Because of Course It Was
Look, we've all joked that parts of the Bay Area feel like another planet. But Pacifica might be taking that a little too literally. Residents recently spotted...