Business & Tech Pentagon Trying to Force SF-Based Anthropic to Weaken AI Security for Killing Purposes, Anthropic Not Backing Down Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth complains that it’s “woke AI” that SF’s own Anthropic won’t give him AI-controlled weapons and massive domestic surveillance, and is now threatening to blacklist the company.
Business & Tech Transamerica Pyramid Reportedly Being Sold For Second Time In Six Years Whatever drama has been ongoing at the Transamerica complex between its owner and developer/operator Michael Shvo may get wiped away with a reported deal to sell the tower.
Business & Tech Who’da Thought? Tesla Owners Acting Like Real Jerks at Cow Hollow 24-Hour Charging Station A new 24-hour Tesla charging station in Cow Hollow has become a late-night den of loud music, line-cutting, and Tesla bro arguments, and now the station's neighbors are getting exasperated.
Business & Tech Meta Team Scolded For Wearing Those Ray-Ban Glasses In Court During Zuckerberg Testimony The team attending the Los Angeles trial where Meta and YouTube execs are being tried for allegedly making their products more addictive to children to support CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed up, in the way of tech douches, wearing those Ray-Ban Meta glasses that double as video recording devices.
Business & Tech Tesla Agrees to Stop Using the Term ‘Autopilot’ in California to Avoid 30-Day Sales Suspension Tesla was facing a 30-day ban of all car sales in California over deceptive use of the term “autopilot” in their marketing materials, but the electric carmaker just backed down and simply agreed to stop using that word.
Business & Tech AT&T Moving Back Into the Exact Same Union Square Flagship Store They Just Left in 2023 An unlikely tenant is stepping forward to move into the Union Square cable car turnaround’s vacant One Powell Street storefront — the very AT&T store that moved out of that storefront two and a half years ago
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.
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.
Business & Tech Marc Benioff Sticks Foot In His Mouth Again Making Jokes About ICE, Wisecracks Over Employees Getting Arrested Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made the exceedingly unwise decision to kid his international employees that they might be arrested by ICE, and boy did that joke not land whilst he was addressing a company event.
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.
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.
Business & Tech Meta and YouTube Now On Trial Over Claims They Are Addicting Kids With ‘Digital Casinos’ Opening statements started Monday in a trial where plaintiffs allege that Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube are acting as ‘digital casinos’ designing their platforms to addict kids, and Zuckerberg will be forced to testify.
Business & Tech Forget the 'Crypto Bowl,' This Super Bowl Will Be Chock Full of AI Ads — Here Are Five of Them Expect all the big players in AI to be spending lavishly on ads during the Super Bowl this year, including rivals OpenAI and Anthropic — with the latter taking not one but two swings at its bigger competitor.
Bay Area Sports Hotels and Airbnbs Are Making Bank by Gouging Super Bowl Visitors This Week The inevitable surge pricing is now underway as the Super Bowl tourists come pouring into SF, with some hotels up to nearly $2,500 a night, and some SF Airbnb units costing $2,000 for the weekend stay.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Looking to Merge Highly Profitable SpaceX With Money-Losing xAI Recurring Epstein files character Elon Musk may merge one of his most successful ventures with one of his least, and is reportedly on the verge of combining rocket company SpaceX with Bay Area-based xAI.
Business & Tech Anthropic Signs Lease For Entire 27-Story Downtown Tower Anthropic, the growing AI concern founded by two siblings and former OpenAI execs, had inked a deal for an entire office building at Howard and Fremont streets, marking one of the largest office deals in the city since 2019.
Business & Tech Giant Holographic Schlong on Muni Is Actually an AI Ad, Muni Yanks It From Circulation A real cock-up in the annals of Muni advertising, as users noted what appeared to be a holographic penis on the side of a bus, though it’s just an AI company ad that may have been approved willy-nilly.
Business & Tech Waymo Started Taking Passengers to SFO Today Waymos are ferrying paying customers from SF to San Francisco International Airport for the first time on Thursday, but the robocars will not be able to take you directly to the terminals, at least not yet.
Business & Tech Amid Declining Sales, Tesla to Convert Fremont Plant Into Robot Factory Elon Musk made a big announcement about Tesla on Wednesday, saying in an earnings call that the company would be ending production of its Model S and Model X, and converting the Fremont factory to production of the Optimus robot.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Cancels His Own $250 Million Deal to Save California Newspapers Just two years after Gavin Newsom brokered a $250 million deal with Google and Meta for them to help preserve the local newspapers that their business models have destroyed, Newsom himself is now dismantling the deal.
Business & Tech TikTok Users Claim Anti-Trump Posts Are Suddenly Being Censored, Gavin Newsom Vows Investigation After TikTok was sold to a cabal of Trump’s buddies and donors, users say their posts criticizing ICE or mentioning the Epstein scandal are being buried with zero views, and now Gavin Newsom says the state will investigate.
Business & Tech Google Settles Class-Action Suit Over Voice Assistant Eavesdropping For $68M Google/Alphabet has agreed to pay $68 million to customers who used its voice assistant and whose words were unwittingly recorded and shared with advertisers.
Business & Tech Glassdoor Ranks In-N-Out as Best Place to Work in California, Ahead of Nvidia, Google, and Facebook We had to do a double-double take at Glassdoor’s new Best Places to Work 2026 list, as they ranked fast-food chain In-N-Out as a better place to work than the cushy, high-paid confines of Nvidia, Facebook, and Google.
Business & Tech The Sam Altman-Elon Musk Feud Had Another Public Escalation Today OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who hasn't been afraid to publicly rebuke his former friend Elon Musk in the past, once again appeared to have had it with Elon on Tuesday.
SF Politics ‘Call a Republican’ Phone Goes Up on Valencia Street (Just Be Aware That It’s Some Startup Recording You) A “emotional fitness community” that just got $26 million in venture capital thrown at them has installed a phone on Valencia Street that lets you “Call a Republican” in Texas, perhaps to foster unity, or perhaps just to record you.
