Business & Tech Turns Out, Meta's AI Data Centers Use Up a Lot of Water In Addition to Electricity Something that hasn't gotten enough attention is whether the entire AI enterprise is even sustainable, given how the computing power currently required, scaled upwards, uses incredible amounts of energy and water.
Arts & Entertainment 'Luigi: The Musical' Is as Silly as It Sounds, Also Kind of Subversive? 'Luigi: The Musical' has been something of an underground hit in San Francisco since debuting last month at the Taylor Street Theater. And while it's definitely dumb and quite rough around the edges, it is a subversive good time in line with drag parodies and the like.
SF News Green Fire North of Redding Grows to Over 12,000 Acres A Northern California wildfire that has been burning for two weeks now is just 5% contained, and has grown to nearly 12,000 acres, burning through Shasta National Forest, north of Lake Shasta.
SF News Port of SF Trying to Figure Out How to Complete Crane Cove Park Improvements Without Parks Alliance Funds Following the implosion of the SF Parks Alliance last month, the Port of San Francisco is now on the hook for $1.9 million in construction costs at Dogpatch's Crane Cove Park that were supposed to be covered by money in the nonprofit's coffers.
SF Politics SF City Hall Puts ChatGPT Tool to Work Across Multiple Departments Here in the capital of the AI boom, San Francisco, the city government has just rolled out a ChatGPT-powered tool for use by city workers — hopefully they'll still do their own fact-checking!
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Fire In Fillmore District Leaves One Critical A Sunday night fire in the Fillmore District left one person in critical condition; a pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run in East Oakland; and someone hacked Elmo's Xitter account and started spewing hate speech.
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.
