Business & Tech Anthropic's Pentagon Contract In Jeopardy Over Questions About AI Spying San Francisco-based AI company Anthropic, which launched as an ostensibly more ethically driven AI enterprise than competitors like OpenAI, appears to be hitting an impasse in its contract negotiations with the Pentagon.
SF News Driver In West Portal Crash That Killed Family of Four Pleads No Contest, Judge Sounds Lenient The elderly woman accused of killing a family of four with her vehicle two years ago in West Portal changed her plea Friday from not guilty to no contest, and the judge indicated that she was unlikely to get jail time.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Long Delays at SFO Due to Wind Inbound flights were delayed an average of four hours at SFO last night; the remains of a missing Santa Cruz woman have been ID'd; and a Palo Alto restaurant hosted Bad Bunny's private Super Bowl afterparty.
Arts & Entertainment Sam Smith Channels Chaka Khan, George Michael, and Bonnie Raitt In Castro Residency The great Sam Smith seemed wistful, grateful, and dare we say happy during their almost 90-minute set Friday night, and you can hear them paying tribute to generations of R&B and soul singers in multiple numbers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Diner Food on Polk A new diner debuts on Polk, Cenaduria Elvira makes a splash in Oakland's Jack London Square, and the Chronicle reviews Dingles Public House, all in This Week in Food.
SF News [Updated] Seven Injured After Car Crashes Into Oliver's Supermarket In Santa Rosa A car went through the front windows of gourmet supermarket Oliver's in Santa Rosa Friday morning, leaving seven people injured and significant damage to the store.
SF Politics Remembering When Rose Pak Used to Harangue Politicians From the Stage at the Chinese New Year Parade These days some of you only know Rose Pak as the name on a Muni station, and that is too bad. She was an elbows-out, combative political force who was never afraid to speak her mind, which was always the case at the annual Chinese New Year Parade.
SF News Harrowing Details Emerge of Final Desperate Phone Call to Family Member Before Alameda Quintuple Murder 36-year-old Brenda Natali Morales made a phone call to an uncle just minutes before her husband, Shane Killian, fatally shot her, their two sons, and Morales's parents in a drunken rage on July 10, 2024, prosecutors say.
SF News Teachers' Strike Ends After Early Morning Deal, Schools Still Closed 'til Wednesday The San Francisco teachers' union and the SF Unified School District reached a tentative deal that was announced at 6 am Friday, after four days on strike, with the union getting a key benefit they had been seeking.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Flower Market Gears Up for Valentine's Rush A 76-year-old Oakland woman was injured in a mugging; a former BART director speaks out about the station closure threat; and the SF Flower Market is in full swing for Valentine's Day.
Business & Tech AI Insiders Are Sounding Alarms, and the Guy Who Wrote That Viral Post Says He's Not Being Alarmist Is AI coming for most of your jobs? Maybe not. But some of them? Yes, probably. And we're seeing another wave of AI industry insiders speaking out publicly and making some grave statements.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant From Team Behind Trestle and Vault Coming to China Basin We now have the early news about the first big fall restaurant opening on the books for San Francisco, and its a new, unnamed project from Hi Neighbor Hospitality Group.
SF News San Francisco Sees Another Homicide, the Second In a Week San Francisco is seeing a rapid uptick in its homicide count so far in 2026, following a year with a historically low count. The latest killing occurred in the Tenderloin.
SF News Fence Controversy at Daly City Beachfront Property Escalates With Legal Filing There is now a lawsuit in San Mateo County seeking to stop the county from taking down a controversial fence surrounding some long-vacant property, and the man who put up the fence remains defiant.
SF News Still No Deal as SF Teachers' Strike Enters Fourth Day Negotiations went later than they have typically been going on Wednesday night as a deal between the SF Unified School District and the teachers' union remains elusive. And now kids may not be returning to the classroom until next Wednesday, with a long weekend ahead.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: A Break In the Rain A 73-year-old woman was struck in the head while having her purse stolen in Oakland; a Sonoma County fire engine was involved in an injury crash; and we can expect a break in the rain now until Sunday, but more storms are coming.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Large Development By West Oakland BART Breaks Ground SF schools will remain closed again Thursday as strike talks continue; a long-planned transit-oriented development at West Oakland BART is getting underway; and an assistant principal in San Jose was arrested in a child exploitation sting.
SF News Video: Mount Diablo Has One of the Most Expansive Views In the West, and More Fun Facts About the Bay Area Did you know that the Bay Area was created out of something called a drowned river valley? Do you know the history of how Treasure Island was created out of nothing in the 1930s? A fun new video explains this and more.
SF Politics San Leandro City Councilman Pleads Guilty, Becomes Potential Witness Against Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Former San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo filed a guilty plea in federal court Wednesday in the corruption case that also ensnared former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, making him now a potential witness against her.
SF News District Blames SF Teachers' Union For Leaving the Bargaining Table Early Tuesday Night There is plenty of finger-pointing going on with the SF teachers' strike, but what seems clear is that the union may be sensing their upper hand at this point, and a resolution before Thursday seems unlikely.
SF News Several Gray Whales Make 'Unseasonably Early' Appearance In the Bay It typically would not be whale-watching season yet in San Francisco Bay, but a few gray whales, possibly due to changes in their feeding grounds up north, are making early stops in the Bay.
Arts & Entertainment Jason Kelce Ran Around San Francisco Drinking Beers, and Filmed It Another celebrity who was in town for the Super Bowl, retired Philadelphia Eagles center and soon-to-be brother-in-law of Taylor Swift Jason Kelce, did a "Beer Bucket List" video hitting multiple San Francisco landmarks.
Business & Tech Two Bay Area Men Among Five Sentenced to Prison For Scheme to Steal $2.5M From DoorDash Five people, including two from the Bay Area, have been sentenced to prison terms and restitution for their parts in a strange fraud scheme involving the creation of sham driver and customer accounts on the DoorDash platform.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Alameda County Supes Debate Flock Cameras Nine people have been killed in a school shooting in Canada; the Alameda County Board of Supervisors heard public comments about Flock cameras Tuesday; and Shasta County is seeing a measles outbreak.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to Get Even Cozier With Trump Via Miami Mansion Purchase I truly hope the billionaires all someday have to perform elaborate mea culpas — or be brought up on charges! — for colluding and sucking up to Trump in this era. And notably this week, former liberal Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly seeking a new piece of real estate in Miami.
