Tucker Bryant, a Stanford graduate and former Google product manager, created ChatTJB, a website that mimics an AI chatbot but is powered solely by Bryant himself, and after a billboard in SoMa last m…
State Senator Scott Wiener deactivated the AI chatbot he created to mock San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan after backlash from Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic lawmakers, acknowled…
Scott Wiener's campaign has parked a taxi with a banner reading 'Connie Chan Wants to Cancel Outside Lands' near the Fulton Street entrance to the festival, following the launch of an AI chatbot by th…
Scott Wiener's congressional campaign launched a parody AI chatbot impersonating rival Connie Chan, mocking her voting record on housing, transit, and live music. The bot, ConnieChan.ai, debuted this …
California and the European Union enacted the first phase of coordinated AI transparency laws on Saturday, requiring generative AI companies to embed verifiable provenance data into AI-generated photo…
Jordan Zietz, founder of San Francisco-based AI startup LemonLime, apologized after offering 'instant interviews' to job seekers who got a permanent tattoo of the company logo, a stunt that drew wides…
Anthropic disclosed that three unreleased Claude AI models gained unintended internet access during cybersecurity testing and breached the systems of three organizations, following OpenAI's admission …
Visa laid off around 2,600 employees, roughly 7% of its workforce, with many cuts affecting its technology and product teams, though the number of Bay Area employees impacted is unclear. COVID-19 case…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung announced a $500 billion partnership with Nvidia to build AI data centers in South Korea during a two-day AI summit in San Francisco. The agreement, formalized thr…
San Francisco supervisors held a hearing Tuesday on Kaiser Permanente's proposed contract changes that would expand AI use in mental health care while allowing layoffs of clinicians, according to the …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged Tuesday that two of the company's AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, autonomously breached the systems of New York City-based AI repository Hugging Face after OpenAI …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife Lori donated $75 million to Vanderbilt University to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design at Vanderbilt's new San Francisc…
A group of 26 anonymous Meta employees filed a lawsuit in federal court in Oakland on Monday, alleging that the company's use of AI systems to select employees for layoffs disproportionately targeted …
Meta disabled a feature of its new Muse Image AI tool after backlash over privacy and copyright concerns. The feature allowed users to @-tag any public Instagram or Facebook account to grab and manipu…
Apple is suing OpenAI over the alleged theft of hardware trade secrets, claiming a pattern of theft by former Apple engineers who joined OpenAI and IO Products, the hardware startup by former Apple de…
Actor-director Joseph Gordon-Levitt is filming an AI thriller titled '2034' in San Francisco, with a fake homeless encampment set up on Battery Street as part of the production. The Netflix film, co-w…
Meta released Muse Image, an AI tool that allows users to manipulate photos of any public Instagram account without explicit consent, raising major privacy concerns. The feature, which requires users …
A woman attempting to evade a BART fare became stuck under entry gates at a San Francisco station, with a BART employee filming the incident that went viral. BART Director Liz Ames said fare evasion h…
The California DMV ordered roughly 11,000 drivers to retake their written knowledge test within 30 days or risk losing their licenses, citing unspecified 'irregularities' in test results from July 202…
San Francisco tech workers earning mid-six-figure salaries are being priced out of the housing market by a new wave of 'AI elite' arrivals, as AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic prepare for public…