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A report circulating this week claims California data centers are consuming significant volumes of water for cooling — and that the state has limited visibility...
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 from the d...
Meta cut nearly 3,200 Bay Area workers in what amounts to one of the larger single-employer job events this region has seen in recent years. The number isn't ne...
A lawsuit filed against SF-based delivery startup SpeedX alleges the company booked Bay Area Airbnbs under false pretenses and used them as unlicensed testing f...
Mercor, the AI-powered recruiting startup founded by a pair of early-20s founders who met at Carnegie Mellon, is dealing with a fresh round of negative press th...
Pope Francis released what the Vatican is calling a formal position on artificial intelligence ethics — a document outlining principles around human dignity, tr...
Waymo has pulled the cover off a new robotaxi called the Ojai, a vehicle developed in partnership with Chinese automaker Zeekr. The car is blue, which is new. T...
An Airbnb host is claiming damages after an SF-based startup reportedly used a rented property to test a robot indoors, according to a post that's been circulat...
A piece circulating on r/bayarea this week asks whether Indian immigrants' decades-long influence on Bay Area tech is winding down. The question is worth taking...
Micron's stock is up roughly 860% over the past twelve months, according to the Reddit thread circulating in r/bayarea this week. Sandisk — which completed its...
Meta filed WARN Act notices this week covering nearly 700 Bay Area workers and roughly twice that number in the Seattle area — triggering a fresh round of headl...
A Cybertruck was photographed parked in a red zone in San Francisco this week, wrapped in what the person who posted it described as 'incomprehensible AI advert...