Day Around the Bay: COVID-19 Cases Surge In California, Up More Than 2%

Local:

• Visa laid off around 2,600 people, which makes up roughly 7% of its workforce, with many of the cuts affecting its technology and product teams, but it’s not clear how many Bay Area employees will be cut. [ Chronicle] - Animate, an anime pop-up shop, is set to open in late August inside New People Theatre in SF’s Japantown. [ KRON4] - Charlie xcx will be appearing at Amoeba Music in SF on August 7 for a special Q & A for fans who preorder her album,

Music, Fashion, Film, ahead of her performance on pening day of Outside Lands. [Chronicle]

National:

• There’s currently a COVID-19 surge happening in California, with 3.4% of tests showing positive results compared to a little over 1% a month earlier. [ ABC 7] - AI companies, including Anthropic, are destroying a massive quantity of antique books for training their models, which a judge recently found to be protected under fair use. [ Futurism] - At least 13 people were killed in a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu, Japan late Tuesday afternoon, which caused the second floor of a mall to collapse. [

Associated Press]

Video:

• A pack of coyotes have taken over an abandoned construction site in West Hollywood, which neighbors have dubbed “coyote condo” — a trend that may just come to San Francisco, as housing construction

has also stalled here. Image: Leanne Maxwell/SFist