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The extraordinary move by the US to bar foreign access to Anthropic PBC's best AI models underscores the Trump administration's newfound willingness to exert control over a pivotal industry. It also reminds Silicon Valley that it's working with an imperfectly & 8230;
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this picture of downtown San Francisco and nearby communities on May 27, 2026. The image captures two of the region's iconic bridges. The Golden Gate Bridge connects the northern San Francisco Peninsula with Marin ...
Today, I’m talking with Adam Bry, who is CEO of Skydio, the leading US maker of autonomous drones. Before we recorded this episode, I actually got to remotely operate one of Skydio’s drones in the Bay Area from Adam’s laptop in our ...
The European Commission has unveiled its plans for digital sovereignty. Its proposals betray a disappointing lack of vision Beti Hohler is a Slovenian national who lives in the Netherlands. Like tens of millions of other Europeans, she uses Apple’s app store and ...
Defensive lineman was No 7 pick in 2011 draft Off-field incidents, suspensions affected his career Former NFL defensive end Aldon Smith died Saturday at the age of 36, the San Francisco 49ers said. The team did not disclose the cause of death. ...
Brad Gerstner and Gavin Baker discussed the SpaceX IPO as well as a possible pivot for Nvidia.
Employees at artificial intelligence companies are coming into gargantuan sums of money amid boom in IPOs Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area’s already expensive market are skyrocketing as employees at leading artificial intelligence companies come into gargantuan sums of money ...
“Space computing, the final frontier, has arrived,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared at the Nvidia GTC conference in March. Indeed, the idea of data centers in orbit has gone from science fiction to a serious spending category. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired ...
Urban development, green spaces, and maritime activity converge in this Northern California city.
It seems like every few weeks there’s news of Silicon Valley tech workers getting hit by wave after wave of mass layoffs. So why doesn’t it feel like the Bay Area is in a recession? After all, it’s just as hard as ...
Instead of selling AI tools to companies, venture firms are buying legacy companies outright and rebuilding them around AI from the inside.
Today, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division launched a compliance review into four California public school districts: Graves Elementary School District, San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), Santa Rita Union School District, and Soledad Unified School District (collectively, the California School Districts) ...
Meta’s former head of global affairs says executives pivoted right in some cases for ‘rather more self-interested’ reasons Silicon Valley companies including Meta have decided to embrace Maga politics, some for “rather more self-interested” reasons, the former UK deputy prime minister Nick ...
Acclaimed singer Alanis Morissette has proven that she can conquer not only the music charts, but also the real estate market.
It's part military jeep, part rolling art museum, and for Filipino Americans, it's a symbol of cultural identity and resilience. Itay Hod takes a ride on San Francisco's last jeepney.
One hates to prioritize one artform over another& 8230; really, one does. But after seeing Ariana Grande's opening show on her "Eternal Sunshine Tour" at the Oakland Arena Saturday night, it is tempting to want to send the multi-hyphenate talent a message, ...
After a six-and-a-half-year layoff between tours, Ariana Grande has made a long-awaited return to the concert stage, with her "Eternal Sunshine" tour kicking off at the Oakland Arena Saturday night. Variety was on hand for the show and has the full setlist, ...
The president said he will invoke Cold War-era emergency powers to direct a nearly $700-million investment into the waning coal industry, including construction of a West Coast coal export terminal in Oakland.
The “latest advancements at the AI frontier have increased the level of urgency around cybersecurity,” Palo Alto Networks’ CEO said.
The beat comes on lowered expectations, after the company gave disappointing guidance in February that fell short of analyst estimates.
“It’s exhausting,” says Magnussen as he talks about drawing from real-life tech titans to play Duncan Park, a data-mining boss consumed by ambition and self-doubt.
Meta announces the locations and scale of layoffs affected by the social media company's most recent round of cuts.
“Cyberselfish” author says tech elite believe that taxes are for “little people.”
In San Francisco's latest real estate boom, renters are paying cash up front, multimillion-dollar houses are selling auction-style and AI company stock can buy a sprawling hilltop estate. It's a reflection of the new wave of wealth from the artificial & 8230;
As Californian companies race to manufacture and deploy thousands of humanoid robots in the coming year, another new class of worker has been born
Worlds are colliding for NBC News’ Hallie Jackson. The Washington-based anchor and correspondent on most weekdays can be seen leading a two-hour program, “Hallie Jackson Now,” that live streams on the NBC News Now service. And on Sundays, she is behind the ...
Andrew Durham’s tender adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s book finds warmth, humour and heartbreak in an unconventional family unit shaped by love and loss For anyone familiar with the Bay Area in the 1970s and 80s, this offers a glorious wallow in nostalgia, ...
Ferries, cargo ships and tankers cut through choppy waters in the San Francisco Bay as a whale surfaced nearby, its spout barely visible against the white caps. Until now, whales could easily go unnoticed by mariners, but an AI-powered detection & 8230;
San Francisco's main immigration court has closed, leaving chaos and dysfunction in a region long known for its friendliness to asylum seekers
Oh, so that's why he was kind of limping during the gig on Sunday.
Elim Chan has been hired as the first female music director of the San Francisco Symphony
While most college freshmen spend their first year shopping around courses and picking their majors, Theo Baker had a bit more on his plate. As a reporter for the Stanford Daily, he investigated research misconduct, leading to the resignation of President Marc ...
Climate change is pushing starving gray whales into the San Francisco Bay in unusual numbers, where ship strikes killed at least 40% of the 21 whales found dead last year
Climate change is pushing starving gray whales into the San Francisco Bay in unusual numbers, where ship strikes killed at least 40% of the 21 whales found dead last year
An AI trained to use thermal images to detect whale body heat could help warn ships at risk of colliding with the marine mammals.
Shein, the Chinese e-commerce giant known for cheap apparel, is buying the direct-to-consumer brand Everlane, according to news reports.
The 19 infections were linked to Kaiser's medical center in Santa Clara. Most of those who fell sick are recovering at home, Kaiser said in a statement last week.
Alpha, a new school in San Francisco, isn't just embracing AI, it's letting it take the lead. Itay Hod has more.
The Vaillancourt fountain, an enormous sculpture in place since the 1970s, has been equally reviled and revered It was a surreal, fitting end for one of San Francisco’s most divisive public artworks: the Vaillancourt fountain, an enormous concrete sculpture looming over Embarcadero ...
The driver and several others were injured, the Oakland Fire Department said.
According to Office of the Governor of California's source item, Governor Newsom celebrates more than 380 new affordable homes coming to the Bay Area and Coachella Valley, Source The development sits in VINI's Bay Area file for local readers tracking public services, ...
Carly Schwartz wanted a solution for her mental health struggles. She found one, but not where she expected On a threadbare carpet in the living room of a Bernal Heights bungalow, I lay blindfolded on my back. Two middle-aged rescue terriers, one ...
A Bay Area resident stuck on a cruise ship with a deadly hantavirus outbreak has returned to Santa Clara County and is being monitored by health officials.
Whether it’s Palantir selling a $239 chore coat, Anthropic taking over a coffee shop or executives walking the red carpet at the Met Gala, tech’s biggest players are pivoting to fashion to sell their brands – and attempt to appear cooler in ...