Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to open new AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo, following the success of its first permanent loft in San Francisco, which has welcomed more…
The Wall Street Journal reports that San Francisco companies are offering AI professionals salaries up to $10,000 monthly amid a housing crunch, driven by high demand for AI talent and rising rental p…
A new invite-only dating platform called WMAF Meet uses AI to match 'Western' men with Asian women, claiming to screen for 'good-faith' applicants and prevent fetishization. The site, registered on Ma…
AI wealth is driving a housing market frenzy in San Francisco, with some homes selling for a million dollars over the asking price, according to CNN Business. The influx of high-earning tech workers f…
Knowtex, a healthcare AI company building voice AI operating systems for clinicians, is hiring two ML Engineers/Researchers in San Francisco for hybrid roles focused on speech and audio modeling or la…
An AI manager in San Francisco fired a human employee for being late 17 times, marking a notable instance of AI-driven personnel decisions. The termination was carried out by the AI system, which had …
Roman's Attic, a Substack publication, argues that aspiring AI safety professionals should focus on directed reading to resolve key uncertainties rather than reading broadly without a clear purpose. T…
Artisan, the AI startup that went viral for its 'stop hiring humans' campaign, has pivoted its messaging to position its AI agent Ava as a tool to help employees 'be more human,' according to founder …
Waymo has imported 3,200 Zeekr-built Ojai electric robotaxis into the United States despite a 102.5% tariff on Chinese-made EVs, with more than 2,600 deliveries in 2026 and about 500 vehicles recently…
A software developer's home internet outage in San Francisco disabled all of his AI coding agents for half a day, revealing that his Raspberry Pi homelab running Claude Code and Codex sessions was ine…
Badlands and Toad Hall, two popular gay bars in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood, paused their use of Patronscan Guard+, an AI-assisted ID verification reader, after community pushback over the wee…
Gusto is hiring a Software Engineer for its ML Platform team in Denver, New York, or San Francisco, offering a salary of $160k–200k/yr. The role involves building and scaling MLOps infrastructure, wit…
In 2026, tech companies are offering multimillion-dollar packages to elite AI talent while cutting thousands of general tech jobs, with Meta, Elon Musk's 'elite unit', and Amazon competing fiercely. A…
AgiBot shipped roughly 8,400 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, capturing 44% of the global market to overtake Unitree Robotics as the world's largest humanoid robot vendor, according to Smart…
Tucker Bryant, a former Google marketing manager now working as a keynote speaker, artist, poet, and social media creator, paid $6,000 to rent a billboard in downtown San Francisco for July that adver…
A viral chatbot called ChatTJB, promoted as an AI-powered chat interface, is actually manually operated by Tucker Bryant, a 32-year-old artist and former Google employee, who responds to users himself…
Tucker Bryant, a 32-year-old public speaker and former Google project manager, launched ChatTJB, a chatbot that is actually Bryant himself answering user queries, as an art project commenting on AI re…
San Francisco's political experiment with artificial intelligence has begun, with AI-generated ads and partisan chatbots already permeating civic discourse, according to a report on the city's early a…
President Lee Jae Myung arrived in Frankfurt on Sunday for a meeting with the Korean community in Germany, the final stop of his five-nation tour that began July 24 in San Francisco, where he promoted…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI researcher, predicts in a June 2024 essay that artificial general intelligence (AGI) could arrive by 2027, with machines surpassing many college graduates by 202…