The Exploratorium in San Francisco opened a new exhibit called 'Life in Space' that explores the science of survival in outer space, featuring replicas of space suits, sensory experiments, and interac…
Cusman AI, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2023, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from NexWave Capital to develop an AI-powered customer success platform that unifies data from multipl…
The San Jose City Council approved a proposal to place ranked-choice voting for special elections on the 2028 primary ballot, aiming to cut costs by eliminating runoff elections. The measure, which wo…
Asia Live, a 15,000-square-foot culinary emporium from George Chen and Cindy Wong-Chen, quietly opened at Westfield Valley Fair in Santa Clara. The venue features multiple open-kitchen restaurants, a …
Temporal shipped Serverless Workers, Standalone Activities, and Workflow Streams at Replay 2026 to address infrastructure cost, message queue complexity, and LLM token streaming challenges in AI agent…
OpenAI and Anthropic employees are preparing for massive IPO windfalls as both AI labs file to go public with nearly $1 trillion in private valuations. Financial planners advise workers to understand …
Revnu, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2026, provides AI growth infrastructure that automates outbound outreach, multi-channel ads, SEO, social content, and churn recovery through a shared in…
A parent in a San Francisco suburb joined their school district's AI task force after discovering their teenage son was using AI to solve math homework. The Reed Union School District developed a traf…
San Francisco's housing market is surging due to the AI boom, with median home prices topping $2 million and rents doubling since Covid. Real estate insiders attribute the spike to AI startups and tec…
The San Jose City Council is expected to approve extending parking meter hours in downtown from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and raising rates to $4 per hour for most spaces near garages, generating an estimated …
A female FBI agent is suing the Department of Justice, alleging her career stalled after she rebuffed a senior male agent's drunken advances. The lawsuit claims the senior agent pressured her for nude…
Cloud hosting platform Render held its first user conference, Localhost, on June 18, 2026 in San Francisco, where CEO Anurag Goel reported 400,000 new developers per month and 10 million live services…
A critic argues that the AI industry's focus on existential risk is a hype-driven strategy to justify inflated valuations, contrasting technical progress at companies like Z.ai and comma.ai with alarm…
Midjourney announced on June 18 the launch of Midjourney Medical, a new division developing an Ultrasonic CT scanner that can scan the entire body in 60 seconds using ultrasound-on-chip technology fro…
Waymo is recalling 3,871 robotaxis to fix a software issue that caused the autonomous vehicles to enter and drive through freeway construction zones in Phoenix and San Francisco. The Alphabet Inc. uni…
Midjourney, known for AI imagery, announced plans to build a cheaper, faster body scanner using ultrasonic sensors and open a spa in San Francisco by 2025, aiming to collect health data and eventually…
Midjourney, known for AI image generation, is building a full-body ultrasound scanner with Butterfly Network and plans to open a spa in San Francisco by late 2027. The scanner uses underwater sensors …
The San Jose City Council formally opposed a statewide ballot measure that could retroactively restrict local real estate taxes, with Mayor Matt Mahan warning it could force the city to shut down inte…
Midjourney, the AI image-generation company, announced a full-body medical scanner at a San Francisco event on June 17, claiming it outperforms MRI machines in speed and safety. The device, built with…
The EU cybersecurity agency ENISA is set to meet AI company Anthropic on Thursday, a meeting arranged before the US Department of Commerce ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its advanced models, i…