Some home sellers in San Francisco are now requesting shares of OpenAI or Anthropic stock instead of cash, reflecting the high value placed on equity in AI startups amid anticipation of their IPOs.…
A developer traced the journey of a single LLM API call from a keystroke through submarine fibre cables, data centres, and busy GPUs, explaining why the same prompt can feel instant one day and sluggi…
OpenAI is hiring an investment banker for its Applied AI team in San Francisco, offering a base salary of $185,000 to $205,000 plus equity. The role involves defining the quality bar for AI-assisted i…
A US federal judge rejected Elon Musk's bid to overturn a jury verdict that found he misled Twitter investors with tweets during his 2022 takeover, leaving him facing a potential $2.6 billion damages …
Rémi Louf, CEO of AI startup .txt, runs his company from a castle in Bourron-Marlotte, France, paying €600 a month for an office with a moat. The 15-person distributed team benefits from the serene en…
A developer reflects on the history of the United States, tracing its journey from the asteroid impact that wiped out dinosaurs to modern AI breakthroughs. The piece highlights key innovations such as…
Adobe is experimenting with 'agentic sites' that generate personalized web pages in real time based on a visitor's intent, using LLMs to assemble content from existing material. Principal Scientist Ca…
AI Engineer conference founder swyx praised WorkOS's workshops as the gold standard for AI Engineer content at the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco. The workshops treat sessions as products w…
Nick Nisi and swyx taught a workshop titled "Lifestyles of the AI-Native" at the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco, where attendees learned voice coding, agent loops, verification gates, and s…
At the AI Engineer conference in San Francisco, a developer observed that the industry is moving past simple chat interfaces and treating large language models like central processing units within an …
San Francisco tech workers earning mid-six-figure salaries are being priced out of the housing market by a new wave of 'AI elite' arrivals, as AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic prepare for public…
The AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 sold out all ticket tiers before opening, drawing over 6,000 attendees to Moscone West in San Francisco. Founded by Shawn 'swyx' Wang, the conference features 29 trac…
Amazon Robotics is nearing a deal to lease 250,000 square feet at 650 Townsend Street in San Francisco's Design District, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The move signals the company's expan…
San Francisco's AI boom is driving up housing costs so rapidly that even couples earning $365,000 annually struggle to find apartments under $5,000 rent. With median rent at $3,827 and average home pr…
Tech companies have eliminated about 10,900 Bay Area jobs in the first half of 2026, more than double the 4,700 cuts in the same period last year and exceeding the 10,170 total for all of 2025. Cisco …
A developer building a bilingual daily planner in English and Traditional Chinese discovered that the linguistic constraints of Chinese forced greater clarity in product design. The project, First Lig…
San Francisco police arrested five people at the Trans March on Friday after vandalism and a scuffle that injured two officers. The arrests were for assault, vandalism, and obstructing police, with th…
San Jose has trained its 1,000th employee on AI tools as part of a plan to boost government efficiency and preserve jobs amid budget cuts. The city aims to train 2,500 workers by 2027, leveraging AI t…
The Golden State Valkyries hosted Pride Night at Chase Center, reinforcing their commitment to LGBTQ+ inclusion as a core part of the franchise's identity since before their inaugural season. Coach Na…
Postman AI Engineer was demoed at a meetup in San Francisco, showing how it uses a Context Graph to map system dependencies and identify downstream impacts of code changes. The demo highlighted that a…