San Francisco Democratic Party chair Nancy Tung and women's advocate Susie Tompkins Buell criticized former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for calling a campaign chatbot created by California state Sen. S…
Anti-AI protesters staged a balloon-filled, choreographed demonstration at OpenAI's Bellevue, Washington office, drawing online mockery for its unserious tone. The protesters, who dressed as rogue AI …
Former Google project manager Tucker Bryant built ChatTJB, a chatbot that mimics AI assistants but is powered by humans—Bryant and over 10,000 volunteers—with no LLM or algorithm. Since its April laun…
San Francisco artist Tucker Bryant launched ChatTJB, a chatbot-style website in which he manually answers every prompt instead of using a large language model, drawing peak traffic of about 5,000 quer…
Poet and former Google product marketer Tucker Bryant has placed a San Francisco billboard advertising ChatTJB, a parody LLM-style chat interface powered entirely by Bryant himself, who manually answe…
Billionaires behind California Forever, a plan to build a city for 400,000 residents on 65,000 acres in Solano County, are seeking Governor Gavin Newsom's help to advance the project, which includes a…
LemonLime, a five-person Y Combinator-backed AI startup, offered instant job interviews to attendees who got lemon-slice-themed tattoos at a Startup School afterparty in San Francisco in late July, an…
The California Post's latest edition covers three stories: the Democratic Socialists of America's growing influence with 35 primary wins, AI investor Sarah Guo's bearish outlook on big AI labs trying …
San Francisco median home prices hit a record $1.76 million in May 2026, driven by concentrated wealth from AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Over 600 OpenAI employees cashed out $6.6 billion in…
Digital forensics expert Hany Farid warned that ordinary internet users can no longer reliably distinguish AI-generated images, video, or audio from real content, as deepfake content has grown by roug…
UC Berkeley's computer science enrollment decline is driven by supply-side constraints, not AI or job market fears, as the university reduced admissions targets and restricted course access due to ris…
UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, a leading digital forensics expert, told the New York Times he struggles to distinguish AI-generated media from real content, calling it 'like going blind.' Farid is …
A stabbing in San Francisco's Mission District on Sunday afternoon left one person critically injured, with a suspect in custody. The attack occurred near 19th and Mission streets around 3:15 p.m., af…