• The three victims have been identified in Saturday's deadly crash at International Boulevard and 85th Avenue in Oakland, and one was a well known elder in the community. The three victims were 64-year-old Robert Joe Dixon, known as 'OG Frog’; 65-year-old Charles Blackmon; 44-year-old Miguel Sanchez Ramirez. [KTVU]
  • An AI-powered whale detection network launched this week witht the hope of preventing whale deaths by ship strikes. [KRON4]
  • Today is pink-slip day for around 8,000 Meta employees in the first of what may be two sweeping, AI-related layoffs this year. [KTVU]
  • Gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer has reportedly paid some big bucks ($124,000) to eight social media influencers in order to get paid endorsements from them ahead of the primary. [Cal Matters]
  • Trump again got his way Tuesday night, after Republicans sank millions into a Kentucky primary race to oust a Trump critic, Thomas Massie, and he lost. [New York Times]
  • Reading the tea leaves for why House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi endorsed Connie Chan over Scott Wiener, the reasons are fairly clear: she and Wiener have little to no relationship, she wants to champion a woman to succeed her, and she wants to stick by labor unions who have endorsed Chan. [Chronicle]
  • A Chronicle reporter headed to an Ultimate Fighting Bots (UFB) boxing match at a happy hour at Temple Nightclub, and this is San Francisco right now. [Chronicle]