Business & Tech Sam Altman Back at OpenAI as CEO, Most of Board Gets Replaced A little over four days after being ousted as one of the most highly visible CEOs in the Bay Area tech scene, Sam Altman has been reinstated as the top exec at OpenAI. And the board that ousted him has mostly resigned.
SF News Turkey Eve Headlines: Hayward Woman Charged With Murder of Husband A woman was killed in a three-way DUI crash on a Sonoma highway; a Hayward woman has been charged with a murder plot that killed her husband; and BART says shorter trains have made things safer.
SF Politics South Bay Congresswoman Anna Eshoo Announces She Will Not Run for Reelection Longtime Peninsula Congresswoman Anna Eshoo is planning to retire from the House next year, and she announced Tuesday that she will not be seeking reelection.
Arts & Entertainment Despite Saying They'd Never Be Back After 2019 Dustup, Rolling Stones Schedule 2024 Levi's Concert The concert promoter of the Rolling Stones suggested four years ago that the band would be skipping Levi's Stadium on future tours, due to all of the hassles and last-minute rules it said the City of Santa Clara imposed on them. But they're coming back next year, anyway.
SF News SF Once Again Playing Chicken With State Over Housing Element, 'Builder's Remedy' Another deadline looms that could mean the difference between San Francisco officials maintaining planning controls or allowing a free-for-all of development, and it's happening because state housing officials are exerting serious pressure on the city to build more housing.
Business & Tech Musk's X Sues Media Matters Over Article Regarding Hate Speech and Ads Elon Musk is extremely mad at Media Matters, a nonprofit watchdog group that has been calling out hate speech on X/Twitter, and now he's filed a lawsuit against them.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Speeding Car Flips Over In Tenderloin A speeding car hit two parked cars and flipped over on Golden Gate Avenue Monday night; a man was shot walking to his car at West Oakland BART; and gas prices in California have fallen below $5 for the first time since July.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ex-Boyfriend Convicted In San Carlos Beheading Jose Solano Landaeta was convicted Monday in the Sept. 2022 beheading murder of ex-girlfriend Karina Castro; two men have been arrested in a stray-bullet homicide in Oakland; and a longtime SF novelist dies at age 99.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Sits Down With ABC News to Discuss SF's Reputation, Persistent Negative Attention, Signs of Hope After a year in which there was hardly a news outlet in the country that didn't pile on with a story about San Francisco circling the drain and facing an economic "doom loop," Mayor London Breed just gave another national news interview to discuss the actual situation on the ground.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Original Little Star Pizza Location On Divisadero Closing After 19 Years One of San Francisco's best pizza spots, Little Star on Divisadero, is shutting its doors at the end of the year. And the owner blames delivery apps.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season Delayed Again, This Time Until Mid-December The Commercial Dungeness crab fishing season has been delayed again, this time due partly to poor meat quality found in samples, and due to humpback whales still migrating south.
Business & Tech Sam Altman and Other Key Players at OpenAI Head to Microsoft as OpenAI Hires Former Twitch Guy Whatever professional or interpersonal drama is underpinning the chaotic last few days at OpenAI, it sounds like the company's board might regret the mess they created by abruptly firing CEO Sam Altman on Friday, and an employee revolt at the company is ongoing.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: CEO of Cruise Resigns After Robotaxi Recall Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt has resigned after that recall of the company's robotaxis; a food truck worker in Oakland was shot after being robbed; and Thanksgiving week is expected to be extra busy at SFO.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New French Cafe and Champagne Bar Comes to Embarcadero In this week's edition, we have a new French spot taking over an Embarcadero space that's been dark for four and a half years, a fancy doughnut shop and cafe is coming to West Portal, and the Chase Center is getting a couple of exciting new food options.
Arts & Entertainment 'Morning Show' Star Billy Crudup Brings Acclaimed One-Man Play to Berkeley Rep Emmy- and Tony-Award-winning actor Billy Crudup has returned to the Bay Area, starring in the one-man play 'Harry Clarke,' which first made a splash off-Broadway in 2017.
Business & Tech OpenAI Board Fires Sam Altman For Reasons Unclear The board of OpenAI, one of the leading players in the currently booming artificial intelligence sector, just fired its celebrity CEO, Sam Altman, and we may not know the complete story behind this for some time.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Puts X/Twitter In Jeopardy Again With One Antisemitic Tweet Elon Musk can't help himself when it comes to tweeting, and his opinions on many matters are gross and/or deeply misguided, and thus him owning Twitter and taking all the guardrails off it has come back to bite him yet again.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Photo Captures Circling Surveillance Over SF During APEC President Biden signed the temporary spending bill to avert a government shutdown while still in SF last night; SF has surpassed the record for fatal overdoses this year; and a photographer captured the swirls of surveillance planes over SF during APEC.
SF News Bay Bridge Protest Fallout: Transplant Organs Delayed; Two Motorists Claim They Were Wrongfully Detained The massive traffic nightmare Thursday morning that was caused by a pro-Gaza-ceasefire protest on the westbound Bay Bridge meant that several donated organs that were in transit to and from UCSF hospitals were delayed in getting transplanted into patients.
SF Politics Alameda County DA Pamela Price to Host Anti-Recall Campaign Party Thursday Embattled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and her supporters will be having a campaign launch party Thursday evening in Oakland as they try to fend off an attempt to get Price removed from office.
Arts & Entertainment There Are Now Dueling Lawsuits Between City College and SFMOMA Over That Diego Rivera Mural SFMOMA says that City College of San Francisco hasn't ponied up their share of the cash to move Diego Rivera's enormous 'Pan-American Unity' mural back across town. City College now says that they can't be blamed for the museum's "financial mismanagement."
SF News David DePape Found Guilty of Assaulting Paul Pelosi In Federal Trial In what was a fairly open-and-shut case, admitted Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape was convicted on federal charges Thursday morning after the jury had deliberated for just a matter of a few hours.
SF News Biden Called Newsom a 'Helluva Governor' at Exploratorium Event; Gwen Stefani Performed, and There Were Fireworks That VIP event for APEC week hosted by President Joe Biden happened at the Exploratorium on Wednesday evening, and you might have seen or heard the fireworks going off as it was winding down.
SF News [Update] Protesters Blocked All Lanes of Westbound Bay Bridge For Four Hours, Dozens Arrested A few dozen protesters stopped traffic on the Bay Bridge Thursday during the morning commute, locking arms and blocking all the westbound lanes just east of Treasure Island.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: MLB Owners Approve A's Move to Vegas Elon Musk dropped off the bill of an APEC event he was supposed to speak at today; that GAYPEC event didn't seem to have a lot of actual APEC people at it; and team owners in the MLB unanimously approved the A's move to Las Vegas.
