Business & Tech 16 Best House Cleaning / Maid Services in San Francisco for 2023 San Francisco, a city that many love to hate - and who can blame them? After all, it's not like it's home to some of the most beautiful streets, landscapes, and architecture in
Business & Tech Google Unveils Its AI Chatbot, Called Bard The Bay Area is now home to two big companies with AI chatbots that may or may not be writing your niece's term papers right now. Google has just opened up access to its chatbot, called Bard, at least in the U.S. and U.K.
Business & Tech New Video By SF Business Lobby Taps Giants Announcer Jon Miller to Lure Businesses Here A coalition of the city, bankers, and big-business types is using the voice of the Giants' Jon Miller in a new marketing video to bring businesses to San Francisco, in a campaign that conveniently ignores the affordability issues that keep them from doing so.
Business & Tech Game Developers Conference Opened Today at Moscone Center, Drawing an Estimated 24,000 The big annual Game Developers Conference returned to San Francisco with its Monday morning opening, and it runs through Thursday at the Moscone Center, with twice as many attendees expected compared to last year’s scaled-down version.
Business & Tech Judge In Elizabeth Holmes Case Says He'll Rule on Prison Delay, Restitution Next Month The federal judge who sentenced Elizabeth Holmes last fall to 11 years in prison heard arguments Friday morning on whether Holmes should have to pay restitution to Theranos investors, and on whether she will be able to delay entering prison.
Business & Tech SF-Based First Republic Bank Gets $30B Lifeline From Group of Larger Banks It was good news on Thursday for regional bank First Republic, which on Monday was facing serious stress in the wake of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. A coalition of larger banks agreed to funnel $30 billion in deposits to the bank to help it shore itself and meet the demand for withdrawals.
Business & Tech San Mateo County School Board Sues Social Platforms Over 'Monetizing Misery' of Kids — But Leaves Out Instagram The San Mateo County Board of Education has filed suit against the parent companies of YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok citing evidence that they were designed to be addictive and are harming the mental health of children. But where is San Mateo County resident corporation Meta in all this?
Business & Tech Report: Ron Conway Was Among Venture Capitalists Begging For Silicon Valley Bank Bailout The “small-government libertarians” got their big government bailout this past Sunday, and as observers slag the hypocrisy of founders and VCs who oppose safety nets for everyone else, we learn that local mayor whisperer Ron Conway was helping pull strings to get the bailout.
Business & Tech Appeals Court Upholds Prop. 22 Gig Worker Law, But It’s Still Likely Headed To State Supreme Court A big win for Uber and Lyft to not treat their drivers as employees, as a state appeals court has upheld the Prop. 22 law exempting rideshare companies from minimum wage and overtime rules, but this thing’s expected to go to the state Supreme Court.
Business & Tech Meta Laying Off Another 10,000 Employees, Or 13% Of Workforce It’s another 10,000 layoffs at Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, on top of the 11,000 layoffs from November, as their pandemic growth hangover collides with bad bets on Web3 and metaverse boondoggles.
Business & Tech SF-Based First Republic Bank In Huge Trouble As Shares Collapse By More Than 70%, Trading Halted The feared “contagion” from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse has now spread to banks whose branches and ATMs you see around San Francisco, as the SF-based First Republic Bank tanked in the markets over bank-run fears.
Business & Tech Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Reverberates Through Bay Area Wine Industry, Tech Startups In addition to the many local tech companies large and small that are likely to be impacted by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), we're learning that they were a major lender and banking partner for the wine industry, accounting for about 2% of the bank's total business.
Business & Tech Silicon Valley Bank Shut Down By Regulators In Biggest Bank Failure In 15 Years In what may be a harbinger of more hard days ahead for the tech world in the Bay Area, a prominent lender to startups and one of the 20 largest banks in the country, SVB Financial Group or Silicon Valley Bank, has failed.
Business & Tech Tesla Faces New Federal Probe Over Possible Autopilot Crash In Walnut Creek; Also, Musk Seems to Have 'Disbanded' Their PR Department A Tesla that may have been operating in "Full Self-Driving" mode crashed into a firetruck at high speed on I-680 last month, and this has triggered a new investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Business & Tech High-Profile Tech Layoffs Continue With Thousands More Expected at Meta This Week Facebook parent entity Meta is reportedly planning to lay off thousands more employees in a second round of cuts, possibly happening as soon as this week.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Now Looking to Get Out of Possible $878 Million Restitution Bill Yeah, so, Elizabeth Holmes doesn't really think she should have to pay back the bilked investors who lost money because of Theranos's collapse, and her lawyers' latest gambit is to try to get out of her having to pay any restitution at all.
Business & Tech Another Glitchy Day at Elon Musk's Twitter, Snafu Breaks Several Features Across the Platform Twitter had a roughly 90-minute meltdown for thousands of users Monday morning, and while the platform is back up and running, these things seem to be happening more frequently in the wake of Musk's mass layoffs.
Business & Tech Well, Well, Well, Twitter Has Reinstated Its Longstanding Policy Against Violent Speech Twitter announced Wednesday that it has "made a few changes to our policies around violent content and similar language," though it is basically just a rephrasing of what Twitter's longstanding police was, pre-Elon.
Business & Tech John Oliver Goes After SF-Based OpenAI and Its ChatGPT Product: ‘The George Santos of Technology’ John Oliver’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ went on a fiery rant against AI products, pointing out how artificial intelligence is a lot more ‘artificial’ than it is ‘intelligent.’
Business & Tech Elon Musk Lays Off 200 More ‘Hardcore’ Twitter Employees; Also He Was Weirdly Quick To Defend ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Even sleeping on the office floor won’t buy you Elon Musk’s love at Twitter, as another 200 staffers who met his ‘hardcore’ requirements were pink-slipped Saturday night, but the “Dilbert” cartoonist did win Elon’s love over his racist diatribe.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Had Her Second Baby and Her Lawyers Are Still Trying to Get Prison Entry Delayed New court documents reveal that convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes now has two young children, and also, maybe she and Billy Evans aren't legally married after all?
Business & Tech Supreme Court Showdown: Big Tech vs the Law, with the Fate of the Internet at Stake After decades of protecting Big Tech from lawsuits, the Supreme Court is finally ready to take a look at Section 230, the 'lifeblood of the internet.' Time will tell how companies like Google and Facebook fight back.
Arts & Entertainment Elon Musk's Twitter Debacle Mocked on Mardi Gras Parade Float Complete with a sink by his side — let that sink in! — an effigy of Elon Musk appeared on a float in a Thursday night Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, showing us again that the mockery over his Twitter takeover and subsequent behavior is coming from all corners, online and off.
Business & Tech Tesla Is Now Recalling 360K Cars With 'Full Self Driving' Software Over Reported Flaws Elon Musk's other company now has another software-based recall to deal with, and it relates to some reported dangerous behaviors by the robot cars when in "Full Self-Driving" mode.
Business & Tech Report: Angry Elon Musk Alters Twitter Algorithm To Force More People To See His Tweets Furious that President Biden’s Super Bowl tweets got better engagement than his, Elon Musk reportedly forced Twitter engineers to rejigger the algorithm so more people would see his tweets.
