Arts & Entertainment Oprah Winfrey Hosting Prime Time Special on AI Featuring Sam Altman, Bill Gates Oprah is taking on the topic of artificial intelligence, and she'll be airing a prime-time special on ABC in September to ask the question "AI: What is it?" and other things your parents and grandparents have been asking.
Business & Tech Google Says It's Fixed Gemini People-Generating Feature, Also It's Releasing Customizable Chatbots Google's AI project Gemini hit a snag earlier this year when its image-generating feature was found to create wild historical inaccuracies in the interest of diversity. Google says it's been working on that, and the new and improved people-generator will made available to some paid users soon.
SF News Dublin Student's Mother Speaks Out, Says Son's Beating Was Case of Mistaken Identity The mother of the Dublin High School student who was bizarrely attacked by a group of people, including a parent, in the school locker room last week, is speaking out and calling for better security at the school.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rare Bee Documented on Mount Tam A 27-year-old man was killed while working in East Oakland; a 20-acre brush fire destroyed several structures east of Petaluma Wednesday; and a rare bee not documented in 45 years has been spotted in the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Muni Buses Collide, Four Hospitalized Four people, including two bus operators, were injured in a crash of two Muni buses in the Bayview; a person was reportedly struck by a BART train in downtown Berkeley; and the final legal dispute over Salesforce Transit Center's construction has been resolved.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Cocina Alum Opening New Hot Dog Stand at Ferry Building A chef known for her Louisiana-style gumbo and po'boys is pivoting to selling zhuzhed-up hot dogs at a new Ferry Building kiosk that opens next week.
SF Politics Trump Reposts Blowjob Joke About Kamala Harris and Willie Brown And in the latest example of Donald Trump acting less like a president and more like a crude teenage boy, he reposted a joke on Truth Social that makes an off-color reference to both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
SF News CHP Efforts In Oakland Yield 800 Arrests, Over 1600 Stolen Vehicles Recovered Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday touted the success of the ongoing "surge" of California Highway Patrol officers doing added law enforcement in Oakland.
SF News Charges Dropped Against Man Accused of Aiding Burglary That Led to Oakland Police Officer's Shooting All charges have been dropped in the case against Marquise Cooper, one of four suspects who has been jailed in connection with the December 29 shooting death of Oakland police officer Tuan Le.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Big Rig Hits Freeway Sign, Shuts Down 680 A big rig struck a freeway sign on I-680 in Pleasanton; a Berkeley homeless man was arrested for killing another man; and one of the suspects in the beating of a Dublin High School student was reportedly a parent.
SF News SF School With Large Low-Income Population Gets First Free Supermarket In a CA School A San Francisco middle school in the Portola District, identified as serving one of the most food-insecure populations of students in the SF Unified School District (SFUSD), now has a free grocery market in the school, with the help of Amazon.
SF News San Jose Woman and 14-Year-Old Boy Killed In Wrong-Way Crash on Highway 85 A horrific wrong-way crash occurred Monday afternoon in which a pickup truck being driven by a Florida man collided head-on with a woman's Tesla, killing her and her 14-year-old passenger.
Arts & Entertainment Giant Nude Female Figure Likely to Be Installed In Union Square This Winter A towering, illuminated sculpture of a nude woman, one of a series of three created for Burning Man by artist Marco Cochrane in the last decade, is set to make an appearance in SF's Union Square, pending final approvals.
Arts & Entertainment SFO Bomb-Sniffer Dog Wins TSA 'Cutest Canine' Contest Barni, a 5-year-old German shorthaired pointer whom you may have encountered while waiting in a TSA line at San Francisco International Airport, just won a prize for being cute from the TSA.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yep, The Slanted Door Is Returning to Its Original Spot on Valencia Street We called it back in May, and it has come to pass: Chef Charles Phan is bringing The Slanted Door full circle back to its original digs in the Mission District, five years after closing the restaurant at the Ferry Building.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: East Bay BART Station Briefly Shut Down Over Weapon A person brandishing a weapon caused a major disruption at West Dublin/Pleasanton Station; the Kremlin is trying to calm fears about Telegram; and an SF homeless advocate says latest encampment sweeps aren't helping.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Elton John Pulls Out of Dreamforce Concert A 26-year-old man has been charged with arson in connection with the early July Thompson Fire near Oroville; an arrest has been made in Friday's homicide in Dublin; and Elton John has backed out of performing in SF at Dreamforce.
Business & Tech Apple Gears Up to Unveil First Generative AI Phone, the iPhone 16, on September 9 — But AI-Powered Siri Likely a Year Off It's once again about time for Apple's annual, post-Labor Day product launch event, and this year it comes with a semi-big new product, with a lot of caveats.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Continues to Get More Queer, Wealthier, Majority Female The Burning Man Census for 2023 is now out, just as Burners are arriving on the playa for another late-August week of revelry in the Black Rock Desert. And many of the demographic trends seen in the 2022 census are continuing.
SF News Off-Duty Oakland Cops Seen Using Police Boat to Take Pleasure Cruise to Tiburon An off-duty Oakland police officer or two appeared to have taken an Oakland Police Department boat out for personal use on Saturday, along with their significant others and at least a couple of children, for a trip up to Tiburon.
SF News Woman Dies on Playa on Day One of Burning Man 2024 There was a death reported Sunday in Black Rock City, on the first full day of this year's Burning Man festival, and so far the only detail released is that the victim was female.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Telegram CEO Arrested In France Oakland police are investigating the shooting of a driver who ultimately crashed their car Monday morning; a hardware store in SF's Parkside neighborhood was damaged in a fire; and Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fatal Domestic Shooting In East Bay Might Have Been Planned A San Leandro woman may be charged with homicide in the fatal shooting of her boyfriend; the California College of the Arts is facing a $20M deficit: and a man was caught on camera jumping onto a Waymo's hood and blowing kisses.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Julius' Castle Rises From the Dead, Maybe Julius' Castle could finally be getting close to a reopening after 12 years of teases, sandwich spot Limoncello is expanding to Civic Center Plaza, and three new restaurants have been announced for vacant spaces in Stonestown Galleria.
SF News As Accused Killer Nima Momeni Heads to Trial Next Month, Lawyers Debate Witnesses We are just three weeks and change from one of the highest-profile murder trials in recent memory in San Francisco, that of Nima Momeni for the April 2023 murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee.
