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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

Bill Gates Disses Crypto, NFTs as 'Greater Fool' Follies at UC Berkeley Event

Billionaire Bill Gates, serving as a counterpoint to fellow billionaire and noted crypto enthusiast Elon Musk, had some choice words Tuesday for the currently tanking cryptocurrency and NFT universe.

Arts & Entertainment

Jobs And Gates, Modern Day Hamilton And Burr, Get Broadway Musical Treatment

Forget the forefathers of American democracy and financial systems: The next hit Broadway musical could take its cues from the forefathers of the PC and the Mac. As the New York Times foreshadows

SF News

Bill Gates, Bono, Rupert Murdoch Attend Steve Jobs Memorial Service

On Sunday in Palo Alto, several noted folks attended Steve Jobs' memorial service at Stanford. Among the list of attendees? Rupert Murdoch, notes Gawker—Rupert, if you recall, was in San Francisco

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Mark Zuckerberg, Other Rich People Pledge to Give Away Money

Today in rich people news: Palo Alto-based billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has promised to give away a large portion of his fortune. The announcement is part of the Giving Pledge, an effort started

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Bill & Melinda Gates Giving $335M to Education

The good news: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it's giving over $300 million to the cause of training good teachers and figuring out what makes a good

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Forbes Big Bounty of Bay Area Billioniares

Forbes annual list of billionaires around the world came out today. Jealous? And for the first time in 14 years Warren Buffett (at $62 billion) snatched the number one spot from Bill Gates

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Day Around the Bay

-- Girl fight! [KGO] -- Barney's -- like its irritating X-Mas holiday window display this year -- is full of green, self-righteous crap. [Curbed SF] -- Mark Zuckerberg might be the next Bill Gates,

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Week Around The -ists

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of

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The Vista from the Valley on Microsoft

Of course Microsoft is not an empire that will fall quickly. We doubt Ray Ozzie will pull a Nero and set the Redmond campus alight or feed open-source advocates to lions (that&

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-Ist-A-Palooza

Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a

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SFist Tech Rant/Roundup: Finger-Pointing

Leander Kahney of Wired News got some flak for his commentary about the relative merits of Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates. He says that the popular perception of Gates as evil monopolistic robber

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New Book Links Computers With Counterculture

Yesterday on Slashdot was a review of local NYT tech correspondent John Markoff's new book, "What The Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry." Quoting

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Creative Commonists

It's good to be a nerd. At least that's how SFist feels after hanging out at the Swedish American Hall, taking full advantage of the open bar, nodding our

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You're So Money, Baby

SFist is shocked to see that we failed for the 31st year in a row to make the Forbes list of the top 400 richest people in America. Much like those US News