Business & Tech The Grok Chatbot Is Apparently Programmed to Check for Elon Musk's Opinions to Answer Questions Well well. Should it be at all shocking to learn that Elon Musk's xAI has built an AI chatbot that essentially seeks to parrot Musk's own views of the world whenever it gets the chance?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A New Dogpatch Hotspot Takes Shape Details on the new project from the Lord Stanley team, Osito's chef Seth Stowaway has launched a dining club, and the Chronicle reviews two reopened classic SF restaurants, all in This Week in Food.
SF News More Homeless Individuals Traveling Out to SF Airport at Night (Again) In what appears to be an echo of a trend that was happening before the pandemic, likely spurred by increased hassling by police and outreach workers in the city, SFO has been seeing increased numbers of homeless people taking the train there and hanging out, or sleeping.
SF News Seven Victims Identified In Yolo County Fireworks Warehouse Blast, Four Were Bay Area Residents Of the seven people who died in last week's explosion and fire at Devastating Pyrotechnics in Yolo County, two were residents of San Francisco and two were residents of the East Bay city of San Pablo.
SF News Revised Plans Call For Very Tall New Tower at Former PG&E Headquarters, 150 Feet Taller Than Salesforce A proposed new office tower would become the tallest building on the West Coast, and would tower above Salesforce Tower by 150 feet, under a new plan by developer Hines for the former PG&E headquarters complex near the foot of Embarcadero.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Earthquake Rumbles Off the CA Coast A 3.4M earthquake struck this morning about 50 miles from Eureka, under the Pacific; Richmond just saw its first homicide of the year; and it's Free Slurpee Day at 7-Eleven stores.
SF News Cannabis Farm In SoCal Sees Chaotic ICE Raid; Subsequent Protest Met With Tear Gas A chaotic scene on California's Central Coast is making the national news Thursday evening as an ICE raid at a cannabis farm was met with a protest, and federal agents and National Guard troops then began deploying tear gas and rubber bullets.
Arts & Entertainment Illuminated, 100-Foot-Long Sea Creature Installation Coming to Golden Gate Park What's being billed as the largest piece of public art ever to be installed in the history of Golden Gate Park is going to debut later this month along JFK Promenade.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Jose Woman Still Suing Thai Restaurant For Serving Her Spicy Meatballs That She Says Injured Her It would seem strange for a doctor to file a frivolous injury lawsuit, so we'll give the benefit of the doubt to the case of a San Jose woman, who is a doctor, who claims that an extra-spicy Thai dish caused her permanent internal injuries.
Business & Tech Musk Threatens to Bring Tesla's LiDAR-Free Robotaxis to Bay Area Within Months Lest we thought that Elon Musk was finally done with the Bay Area, having closed down Xitter's offices and moved several of his companies to Texas, he's now claiming that Tesla's robotaxis will be coming to compete with Waymo soon.
SF Politics Sunset Night Market on Pause, Possibly Falling Victim to Recall Fight Involving Supervisor Joel Engardio If you ask the folks trying to recall District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio, the merchants and the community don't want the popular Sunset Night Market to return this summer — but also, if you're a fan, it's Engardio's fault that it's not coming back.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Dumpster Fire Spreads to Excelsior Building A dumpster fire spread to a residential building in SF's Excelsior this morning; trash collectors are on strike in over a dozen Bay Area cities; and Napa police seek the public's help in a homicide investigation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Is Updating Its Floppy-Disk-Based Train Control System Muni is beginning the $700M project to upgrade its antiquated train-control system; a planned new nightclub in the Castro has been scrapped; and Sam Altman says he feels just "fine" about Mark Zuckerberg poaching his employees.
SF News Berkeley Professor Says He Was Beaten, Likely Gay-Bashed, on Pride Saturday in Dolores Park A gay professor of film media and French at UC Berkeley, Damon Young, says he was attacked and beaten by a group of teens as he tried to leave a crowded Dolores Park on the Saturday of Pride Weekend.
SF News Paul Flores Files Second Appeal of Conviction In 1996 Murder of Kristin Smart An emotional juror who had a tearful outburst, a non-expert witness suggesting roofies were involved, and two unrelated accusations of rape are among the errors Paul Flores and his attorney say occurred during his 2022 trial for the murder of Kristin Smart.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trump Hat Reportedly Spotted Behind Counter at Swan Oyster Depot, Prompting Yelp Revolt Well, for those looking for another reason not to stand in an hour-long line at Swan Oyster Depot, a local food influencer has one for you.
Business & Tech Linda Yaccarino Is Taking Her Leave of X After Two Years as CEO Nobody really thought she'd make it a full two years being CEO at Elon Musk's more chaotic version of Twitter, but Linda Yaccarino somehow did — or she was under contract — and now she'll be taking the rest of the summer off.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Nvidia Becomes First $4 Trillion Public Company A 12-year-old and a 17-year-old have been arrested for a string of ATM armed robberies in Livermore; the feds are suing CA over its trans athlete policy; and Nvidia is now the world's first $4 trillion public company.
SF News Instagram Caught Showing Paid Ads for Escort and Sex Work Services Some ads for sex workers both inside and outside the US were showing up in Instagram stories recently, and though they've been removed it certainly reveals a flaw in how such ads are being screened.
SF News 3.0M Earthquake Shakes Up the South Bay An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.0 rattled parts of the South Bay Tuesday afternoon, and its epicenter was in an unusual spot.
SF News You Can Stop Taking Off Your Shoes at Airport TSA Checkpoints at SFO and Elsewhere In the biggest change since the attacks of September 11, 2001 drastically increased airport security around the US, the Department of Homeland Security has just announced that airline passengers can now keep their shoes on while passing through TSA checkpoints.
SF News Near-Miss Between Taxiing Jets at SFO Sounds Like Fault of Overworked Air Traffic Controller A recent near-miss between jets taxiing across runways at San Francisco International Airport was avoided by a United flight crew, and it appears to have been the fault of an overwhelmed and/or overtired air traffic controller.
SF Politics Military-Style Sweep of City Park in LA Could Be Harbinger of Things to Come With nothing better to do in LA and without a protest to quash, the Trump administration is now using the National Guard to set up a perimeter around a completely peaceful and mostly empty city park, while federal agents on horseback roam around.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Goes 25 Days Without a Homicide Oakland police are touting a drop in violent crime in June; San Jose police hold a news conference about the arrest of one of their own; and the death toll in the Texas floods has risen to 104.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Protesters Gather Outside Sam Altman's House Protesters showed up at Sam Altman's SF home on Sunday; a 37-year-old Oakland man was shot at his own Fourth of July party; and parts of Golden Gate Park will start to be closed off starting July 23 as Dead & Co. and Outside Lands setups begin.
