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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Donates $1M to Pro-Regulation AI PAC Amidst Looming IPOs
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei personally donated $1 million to Public First PAC, a Super PAC advocating for AI regulation, a significant move as AI…
In the Bay Area, Accountability Still Flows Downward
A WARN filing, an AI transparency ordinance, and an anonymous civic tool all appeared in the same week — and all three point to the same structural…
Hundreds Protest AI Tech Giants in San Francisco, Demand Pause on Frontier Models
Hundreds of protestors marched through San Francisco, targeting OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind offices, demanding a pause on frontier AI…
Bay Area Office Vacancies Fall in Q2 as AI, Tech Firms Take Up Millions of Square Feet
Bay Area commercial office vacancy rates saw a notable decline in Q2 2026, with San Francisco and Silicon Valley experiencing millions of square feet…
SF's AI Transparency Law Doesn't Touch the Companies That Built the Boom
The city's January 2026 AI ordinance covers government departments only.
'Stronger Muni for All' Is Mayor Lurie's Committee — and Its Three Biggest Funders Are OpenAI, Anthropic and Ripple
The campaign to tax San Francisco property owners for Muni calls itself "Stronger Muni for All" and sells a coalition of riders, labor and small…
Same Donors, Every Front: A Small Tech-Money Network Spans SF's June 2 Primary and the Statewide Wealth-Tax Fight
A small, overlapping circle of tech donors — Chris Larsen, Garry Tan, Jeremy Stoppelman — is simultaneously bankrolling the attack on a progressive…
The AI Bubble Didn't Move to SF — It Was Always Here
A thread on r/bayarea this week asked why the AI bubble feels centered in San Francisco rather than Silicon Valley, implying a clean geographic break…
Anthropic Is Worth Nearly $1 Trillion. Its New SF Lab Job Pays $65K.
Anthropic posted a San Francisco bench-science job paying $65,000–$85,000 — below HUD's low-income threshold for the city — six weeks after closing a…
Will Trade McMansion for AI Stock: Peak Bay Area Just Unlocked a New Level
We've seen a lot of creative real estate plays in the Bay Area, but a Mill Valley homeowner just set a new bar: he's listing his 13-acre compound not…
Anthropic Keeps Gobbling Up SF Office Space — and We're Cautiously Here for It
Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude, just leased two more office spaces in San Francisco, continuing a trend that would have seemed…
Mission Bay Is Finally Getting a Real Dining Scene — No Thanks to City Planning
For years, Mission Bay felt like San Francisco's most expensive ghost town — a neighborhood of gleaming biotech campuses and luxury condos where your…
A Decade of Doing It Right: UCSF Family House Turns 10
In a city where we spend a lot of ink (rightfully) calling out government waste and bureaucratic dysfunction, it's worth pausing to highlight…
Bay Area’s Billion-Dollar Tech Valuations Clash with Ground-Level Economic Realities
The Bay Area is grappling with a growing economic chasm, as immense tech valuations like Anthropic’s contrast sharply with low entry-level wages and…
The Timing Is the Tell: Bay Area Tech's Accountability Arrives on a Delay
Managed disclosure and strategic philanthropy look like separate behaviors.
A Bat Ray, Spotted in Mission Creek, Highlights the Urban Waterway's Surprising Ecology
An unusual sighting of a ray in Mission Creek, reported on Reddit, highlights the improving water quality and surprising marine biodiversity in San…
A Quick Guide to Surviving an All-Day Stay at UCSF Mission Bay
Sometimes the best stories about San Francisco aren't about City Hall dysfunction or budget blowouts.
Fat Cat x the Mantis Opens on Mission, Giving Kevin Tang's Pop-Up a Permanent Home
Jess Bell's wine program and Kevin Tang's Southern Vietnamese pop-up have landed together at 3215 Mission St in Mission-Bernal, in the former Outer…
Claude Goes to War: Anthropic's Pentagon Deal Is a Mirror, Not an Anomaly
San Francisco's favorite "responsible AI" company is learning something the rest of us figured out a long time ago: in tech, there's no such thing as…
UCSF Bets Big on Hearing Loss with New Mission Bay Facility
UCSF is moving forward with plans to build a major new facility dedicated to hearing-loss care in the Mission Bay neighborhood — and for once, this…
Claude Goes Down, SF Productivity Follows
If you felt a strange disturbance in the force yesterday — like thousands of startup founders suddenly cried out in terror and were silenced — that…
Anthropic's $150 Million Claude Corps Bets Fellows Can Fill the AmeriCorps Gap
Anthropic will commit $150 million to embed 1,000 early-career fellows at nonprofits nationwide — announced ten days after the company filed a…
Act First, File It Somewhere: Bay Area Tech's Disclosure Architecture, in Three Stories
Waymo staged a fleet in a residential garage for a year.
A Mission District Dance Bar Is Actually Expanding — Yes, You Read That Right
In a city where small businesses close so often we barely flinch at the "Going Out of Business" signs anymore, here's a plot twist: a Mission…
May's Restaurant Openings Are Exactly What SF Needs: More Entrepreneurs, Fewer Empty Storefronts
May is shaping up to be a good month for San Francisco's food scene — and honestly, for anyone who's tired of walking past dark storefronts wondering…
The Mission's Food Scene Refuses to Quit: Baja Eats and Fresh Sushi Incoming
Say what you will about San Francisco's struggles — the Mission District keeps betting on itself, one restaurant at a time.
The Mission's Cultural Canvas Gets Fresh Paint — But Is the Neighborhood Losing Its Anchors?
The Mission District is getting a new round of murals on Wiese Street, pop-up vendors are teaming up to share space, and El Faro — one of the…
Peak San Francisco: Cat on a Leash Spotted in the Mission
Look, we spend a lot of time around here talking about city budgets, transit meltdowns, and the ever-expanding bureaucratic blob that is San…
Beauty Bar Is Back — And the Mission Could Use a Win Like This
The Mission has lost a lot of good ones.
The Mission Has Burritos But No Bench Press — And That's a Market Failure
Here's a fun exercise (pun intended): try finding a full-service gym near 24th and Mission.