Angel Contreras, 30, a former Marine studying mechanical engineering at City College of San Francisco, is pursuing his dream of building race cars after an AI chatbot's answer about materials science …
The Dissent, an AI-powered news site created by Dakota Carrasco, a 27-year-old BlackRock portfolio specialist, uses AI agents posing as reporters to cover San Francisco, often reusing the work of huma…
Sen. Scott Wiener took down his AI chatbot targeting Supervisor Connie Chan after three hours of crisis communications advice from Sam Singer, who called the bot a disaster. The chatbot, launched Mond…
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…
San Francisco's housing debate has moved to AI-generated images on social media, where urbanists and preservationists trade renderings of upzoned neighborhoods as ragebait. Architect Mark Hogan of Ope…
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 to pass a 362-page ordinance making sweeping changes to the city's municipal codes, despite objections that the measure is too broad and concerns over …
Grocery Outlet in San Francisco's Mission District is using AI facial recognition software from SAFR at RealNetworks to match customers against a watchlist of people who have previously caused harm, w…
Hundreds of protesters gathered in San Francisco on Saturday to demonstrate against the rapid development of powerful AI systems, marching from OpenAI's headquarters to the offices of Anthropic and Go…
Anthropic, an AI company valued at $965 billion, posted a job for a molecular biology researcher with a salary of $65,000 to $85,000, sparking outrage over affordability in San Francisco where the ave…
AI startup Ahoy launched its agentic meeting scheduler by renting San Francisco's Pink Painted Lady for a pirate-themed party, offering free public access to the historic landmark. The event, funded b…
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors postponed a vote on a 362-page AI-assisted city code rewrite after concerns that the proposal was too broad and unclear. Supervisor Myrna Melgar used AI tool Cla…