Midjourney announced a new medical division, Midjourney Medical, featuring a concept for a full-body ultrasonic scanner that uses sound waves and water immersion instead of radiation or magnets, with …
Midjourney announced a full-body ultrasonic CT scanner and a spa venture in San Francisco, aiming to revolutionize medical imaging with a device that uses 358,000 ultrasonic elements and claims 0.5mm …
Midjourney CEO David Holz unveiled the company's first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, a full-body ultrasound scanner developed with Butterfly Network. The device uses 40 ultrasound modules …
Midjourney is revealing its first hardware project at a live event in San Francisco on June 17, 2025, with a livestream available for remote viewers. CEO David Holz, who previously co-founded Leap Mot…
Vaisala has signed an agreement to acquire Atmo, Inc., a San Francisco-based AI weather company, for a fixed purchase price of USD 70 million plus up to USD 60 million in earn-outs. The deal, expected…
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee broke a tie vote by the City Council to send her proposal to strengthen mayoral powers to the November ballot. The measure would grant the mayor veto power over city policies…
Xavier Becerra, a Democrat and former state attorney general, surged from single digits to win California's governor's race primary, facing Republican Steve Hilton. Tom Steyer, a San Francisco billion…
A San Mateo County man convicted of child molestation, Carl Cacconie, was recaptured in Scottsdale, Arizona, after disappearing nearly 10 months ago while awaiting sentencing. He had been allowed to r…
Alexandria Belton, 33, and her fiancé have been priced out of the San Francisco housing market due to the AI boom, with fixer-uppers selling for hundreds of thousands over asking. Despite expanding th…
Google Cloud Spanner now supports multiple data models—relational, vector, graph, and analytic—within a single globally distributed instance, eliminating the need for separate databases for AI workloa…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz returned from a February 2026 visit to China convinced that German manufacturers will fall behind Chinese competitors without faster AI adoption, leading him to schedule …
Microsoft and Databricks will co-host the Data + AI Summit 2026 from June 15-18 in San Francisco and virtually, showcasing how organizations can unify data, analytics, and AI on a secure, scalable fou…
General Motors announced at a San Francisco event that its GM Energy products now support vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, partnering with PG&E in California and DTE Energy in Michigan to help balanc…
Om Malik, a San Francisco-based writer, photographer, and investor, has died. He was known for his influential work on technology, including essays on OpenAI and AI infrastructure, and for inspiring m…
Owen McGrann's 'dead economy theory' argues that AI-driven labor replacement will cause economic collapse even without AGI, through a cycle of layoffs, spending cuts, and revenue decline. The essay cr…
Protesters gathered outside Microsoft's Build conference in San Francisco this week to oppose the rapid construction of AI data centers, citing concerns over land, water, and energy consumption. Micro…
Nationwide weekday office visits remain at about 70% of pre-pandemic levels, with office vacancy rates climbing to 14%, the highest since the Global Financial Crisis. Newer office buildings are thrivi…
Omnistrate hosted an event at the Amazon office in San Francisco focused on the challenges generative AI poses for commercial open source companies. Speakers from Zep and Scalar discussed how Omnistra…
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said Thursday the company is deprioritizing acquisitions because its AI business is growing faster than any deal could deliver. Speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San F…
Anthropic president Daniela Amodei addressed the tokenmaxxing debate at a Bloomberg Tech conference on Thursday, stating that AI models still have significant room for improvement over the next two to…