Business & Tech OpenAI Publishes Old Emails From Musk Showing He Approved For-Profit Venture In its first public response to a lawsuit from Elon Musk, OpenAI has published some emails with Musk showing that he signed off on the company's for-profit structure, and that he tried to claim "absolute control" of the company.
SF Politics It's Going to Be Schiff v. Garvey In November's Senate Race This means that California will not have a woman in the Senate next year for the first time in over 30 years.
SF News Humpday Headlines: The Election Proved a Very Good Night for SF Moderates Moderates won a bunch of seats on SF's Democratic Party governing board last night; at least one of two SF judges survived the election, while the other is too close to call; and Jackie Speier is back as a San Mateo County supervisor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Leo's Oyster Bar Reportedly Avoids Eviction After Receiving Notice Things look dicey for another of restaurateur Anna Weinberg's businesses, after it received an eviction notice last week and appears to have narrowly staved off that eviction, at least for now.
SF News Mentally Ill Homeless Man With at Least 60 Arrests Back In Jail on Federal Charges for Presidio Graffiti A very troubled and pretty clearly unmedicated man with a long history of mental illness, addiction, and criminal activity across San Francisco, has been in jail the past three months following an especially creepy incident in the Presidio.
SF Politics Newsom Team Does Quick Cleanup After Story, Says Panera Bread Not Exempt From Minimum Wage Law After a Bloomberg story suggested Governor Gavin Newsom was guilty of cronyism in carving out an exception for a friend to California's minimum-wage law, his team has come out swinging and he's issued a vehement denial.
SF News East Bay Man Charged With Murdering Wife and Mother-in-Law, Six Months After Reporting Them Missing The bodies have not yet been found, but a San Pablo man has been arrested and charged with the murder of his wife and her mother last summer, after he had reported them missing.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Time to Vote, If You Haven't Already Aaron Peskin and London Breed are already trading barbs as if they're running against each other; Newsom was in town campaigning for 'Yes on 1'; and have you cast your ballot yet today?
Business & Tech Meta Hit With Possible Super Tuesday Cyber Attack? Instagram, Threads, Facebook All Go Down People who roll over in bed and start their Instagram scrolling may have found their feeds not loading today, after a major widespread outage appeared to have begun around 7 a.m. Pacific Time.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Accused San Mateo Killer Says Confession Was AI-Generated A federal judge is questioning a plea deal in the vehicular homicide case involving cyclist Ethan Boyes; the suspect in a San Mateo stabbing streamed on Facebook made a bizarre declaration in court; and a spike in fatal ODs hits Marin County.
SF News Snowfall Totals Are In For Tahoe Area; Sugar Bowl Got 10 Feet The snowfall totals are in for this past weekend's blizzard up in Tahoe. And while it sounds like major records were not broken, it was still a whole ton of snow that no one knows what to do with — except the ski resorts.
SF News Are the Waymo and Tesla Arsonists the Same Person? The SFPD has reportedly made an arrest in connection with the arson of an autonomous Waymo taxi in Chinatown last month, and they say the suspect is linked to other vehicle arson cases.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boichik Bagels Is Opening Three New Locations In San Francisco At long last, the acclaimed and quickly expanding Berkeley bagel operation known as Boichik Bagels has announced its first San Francisco locations, which are all set to open this spring.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: I-80 Reopens Near Tahoe After Four Days Closed Travel around the Tahoe area remains difficult as I-80 remains closed; a shooting at a house party in Monterey County killed four people; and the Supreme Court has ruled in Trump's favor in the Colorado ballot case.
SF News Waymo Gets State Approval for Los Angeles and SF Peninsula Expansion — and Freeway Driving The era of calling a robocar to the airport may be getting closer, after the California Public Utilities Commission just granted its permission for Waymo to expand into San Mateo County and down the Peninsula.
SF News Construction Is Actually Happening Inside the Forever-Delayed Trader Joe's In Hayes Valley It's been a while since we had any update on the long-awaited, approved but still not open Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets. But there is movement happening inside the store space!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Brunch Spot Comes to NoPa The NoPa neighborhood gets a delicious new brunch spot, a popular Oakland taco stand has gone legit, and the beloved Cafe Jacqueline in North Beach is temporarily closed, with 87-year-old chef Jacqueline Margulis sidelined with a broken arm.
SF News San Francisco Man Convicted of Brutal Beating and Stabbing Over $100 A verdict has been reached in a case from February 2023 involving a beating and stabbing in San Francisco's SoMa district.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Candidates Appear Virtually at Public Forum The four candidates for the next chief of police in Oakland that were put forward this week by the city's police commission addressed the public and introduced themselves at a candidate forum Thursday night.
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Falling Out With Sam Altman Turns Into Lawsuit Against OpenAI Elon Musk, who helped to co-found OpenAI nine years ago, is now suing the company and its CEO Sam Altman, arguing that it has abandoned its professed mission to develop AI "for the benefit of humanity broadly."
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Asking Rents In San Francisco Come Down Alameda County DA Pamela Price's office is being accused of violating the state's Public Records Act; Discovery Bay was rattled by another earthquake last night; and asking rents in San Francisco have come down compared to the same time last year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tried and True: Frances Gets Stellar Menu Makeover From New Chef Ricky Chu Frances, which will be celebrating 15 years in the Castro later this year, remains one of the city's neighborhood restaurant gems, and the menu has recently been seeing some changes at the hands of newly promoted chef de cuisine Ricky Chu.
SF News San Francisco Architecture Students Work to Reimagine and Rebuild NorCal Town Destroyed By Dixie Fire A project that's been ongoing for two years at California College of the Arts in San Francisco seeks to imagine new ways to rebuild the town of Greenville, which was virtually leveled by the 2021 Dixie Fire.
SF News Man Rescued After Driving Car Off Big Sur Cliff and Getting Stranded For Two Days A Pacific Grove man was rescued Tuesday after being stranded on a cliffside for two days in Big Sur, following a harrowing car crash.
SF News Lake Tahoe Area Braces For 'Life-Threatening' Blizzard Tahoe area residents are being warned of some very extreme weather coming their way — and even there's already been a good amount of snow up there, what's coming is a whole hell of a lot more.
