Business & Tech Forget the 'Crypto Bowl,' This Super Bowl Will Be Chock Full of AI Ads — Here Are Five of Them Expect all the big players in AI to be spending lavishly on ads during the Super Bowl this year, including rivals OpenAI and Anthropic — with the latter taking not one but two swings at its bigger competitor.
SF News SF Teachers Union Announces Strike for Monday, But 11th-Hour Bargaining Continues Following two strike votes and the release of a fact-finding report, the San Francisco teachers' union says it will begin its first labor strike in almost 50 years on Monday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Merced High-Speed Rail Station Could Be Rebranded as 'Yosemite' There is talk of relocating Merced's high-speed rail station four miles outside of downtown, and calling it "Merced-Yosemite"; big waves are crashing at the beach today; and that Bad Bunny lookalike contest is tonight in the Mission.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kimbal Musk No Longer on Burning Man Board Kimbal Musk quietly left the Burning Man board ahead of the latest Epstein Files revelations; SF teachers could go on strike Monday and they're having a press conference Thursday; and Nike is being investigated for "anti-white bias."
SF News Castro Coffee Co. and Nail Salon Will Both Relocate as Castro Theatre Prepares to Reopen This is both Super Bowl Weekend and the grand reopening weekend for the Castro Theatre. And ahead of that big event, we have an update on the two small businesses at the front of the theater building.
SF Politics City Hall Produces Goofy Video to Tout How Ready They Are For Super Bowl Crowds It could be seen as protesting too much, but San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and his office have produced a slick but kind of awkward video in which various city departments confirm how "ready" they are to host the Super Bowl.
SF Politics As Expected, Supreme Court Declines to Hear Prop 50 Challenge Gavin Newsom is gloating, and Trump may fume, but the Supreme Court has denied review of the case in which Republicans were, hypocritically, trying to challenge California's tit-for-tat gerrymandering effort.
SF News Descendants of Black Family Who Were Run Out of Piedmont in the 1920s Sue the City For Reparations The descendants of Sidney and Irene Dearing have now filed a lawsuit in Alameda County seeking damages from the City of Piedmont over an egregious, century-old act of racial injustice.
Bay Area Sports NFL Begins Raking In Fan Dollars With Super Bowl Experience at Moscone Center For a $40 admission fee, you can get into the Super Bowl LX Experience at the Moscone Center and take a selfie next to an NFL helmet, or something.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Tesla Drops Plans for Driverless Taxi Charging Station In SF Tesla has dropped plans for an AV charging station in a Jackson Square garage; unraveling the story of the collapse of CCA; and Melinda French Gates is disgusted with newly released mentions of Bill Gates in the Epstein Files.
SF News San Ramon Residents Still Bracing for 'Big One' After Day With 75 Earthquakes It hasn't been felt very much in San Francisco, but the earthquake swarm that has been rocking San Ramon for the past three months had its most active day on Monday, with a barrage of 75 small and mid-size earthquakes. And residents in the area are pretty on edge.
SF Politics Offensive Billboards Appear In SF Promoting ICE as 'Defensive Player of the Year' Some hastily put together, pro-ICE electronic billboard ads, paid for by a shady outfit with no known donors, have appeared in San Francisco ahead of the Super Bowl, and maybe in other cities as well.
SF News Fire on Pier 28 Causes Temporary Closure of Embarcadero A fire broke out in a pier building on Pier 28 Tuesday morning, the second here in just over a year, leading to a subsequent traffic snarl in the area of Embarcadero and Bryant streets.
SF Politics Katie Porter and Eric Swalwell Bow Out of First Gubernatorial Debate In SF Seven of the umpteen candidates running for California governor are confirmed to appear at a debate happening this evening in San Francisco's Bayview, and being broadcast live. But two of the more prominent ones will be absent.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mel's Drive-In Diner on Lombard Suffers Major Fire A fire broke out in the kitchen of Mel's Drive-In on San Francisco's Lombard Street early Tuesday, causing significant damage to the restaurant.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Dog on Tracks Disrupts Muni Metro Service Muni service was disrupted by a dog on the tracks at Civic Center Tuesday morning; X's offices in Paris were raided by authorities; and a Healdsburg bakery sparked backlash over a tipping complaint.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Big Rig Fire on I-80 In Emeryville Causes Huge Traffic Mess A big rig fire near the MacArthur Maze paralyzed westbound I-80; a Santa Clara man says he was beaten by a bicycle mob; and the Clintons have agreed to in-person depositions on the Epstein Files.
SF News Hastings Family Loses Fight to Keep Name on UC Law School After the University of California removed the name of its namesake benefactor from its San Francisco-based law school, the family of that namesake Serranus Hastings took the university to court.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Upscale Korean BBQ Spot Monami Coming to Upper Fillmore A new and decidedly fancy looking Korean barbecue spot, from the chef behind Michelin-starred SSAL, is heading to the former Noosh space on upper Fillmore in Fall 2026.
SF News Legal Drama Likely to Heat Up Over Fence Installed on Coastal Property in Daly City The ownership of a piece of coastal land in Daly City is rather complicated, as it turns out, and convicted local art scammer Luke Brugnara was not being entirely dishonest in his (at least partial) claim to the land.
SF News Dismembered Body Found In Oakland Oakland police are investigating a possible homicide after a gruesome discovery over the weekend.
SF News Dry Spell Expected to Persist Until Mid-February, or Longer It's turned into an unusually dry winter for Northern California, and that pattern, thanks to a ridge of high pressure, is going to continue for at least the first 10 days of February.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Human Chain Across Golden Gate Bridge Calls for Regime Change In Iran Thousands of protesters calling for regime change in Iran formed a human chain across the Golden Gate Bridge; a potential SF teachers' strike is still looming; and fans of Bob Weir were disappointed with his tribute at the Grammys.
SF News Another Series of San Ramon Earthquakes Rumbles Under East Bay Small earthquakes centered near San Ramon continued to rattle the East Bay as they have for months Monday morning. And the largest, a 4.2M, was felt in parts of San Francisco.
SF News Update: West Oakland BART Station Reopens After Train Collided With Person A major medical emergency stemming from a person possibly being struck by a BART train shut down West Oakland Station Friday afternoon, and service was being impacted throughout the system.
