Local:

  • San Francisco homes are selling for $1 million above the asking price, and one in three Bay Area buyers are paying in cash. The median home price here is currently $1.7 million, compared to the national average of $440,600. [CNN]
  • Two artists on San Francisco-based label Empire Records are facing backlash after they admitted to using generative AI in their latest releases. Fenix Flexin initially denied using AI on Rubberz before acknowledging it, while Tyga confirmed AI was used as a tool on his new album $TARFACE. [SFGate]
  • A former Condor Club employee, 26-year-old Asia Lozano Morton, was sentenced to one year in jail plus a year of mandatory supervision after pleading no contest to being an accessory after the fact in the murder of the club’s manager Marc Calgani last year. [Chronicle]

National:

  • Two workers at a recycling plant in Ohio were killed Tuesday after a chemical tank ruptured followed by a large fire. [New York Times]
  • COVID is on the rise in all 50 states, with Hawaii and Mississippi having the highest numbers. [The Hill]
  • The trial of an 81-year-old man in the 1994 murder of 24-year-old American tourist Amy Lopez began in Germany Tuesday, and he admitted to sexually assaulting and killing her. [CBS News]

Video:

  • The proposed data center in downtown Oakland was swiftly met with backlash, and there’s an organizing meeting this Friday night.