SF News Day Around the Bay: San Ramon Earthquakes Causing Widespread Leaks The swarm of small earthquakes in San Ramon has been causing more underground damage than previously realized; that AI-run boutique in Cow Hollow gets bad reviews; and Utah is seeing a whole lot of measles.
Business & Tech Meta Is Creating an AI Version of Mark Zuckerberg to Attend Meetings for Him Imagine a world where your boss says she doesn't have time to meet with you, but she's sending her AI to meet with you instead. That world may not, in fact, be too far in the future.
SF News SF Supe Pushes to Ban Smoking on Bar Patios, as Most Bay Area Cities Have Already Done Supervisor Myrna Melgar has introduced a ban on smoking at outdoor bar and tavern patios in San Francisco, which would make it one of the last major cities in the Bay Area to do so, and some local venues fear the ban would kill their business.
SF News Mercedes Driver Charged With Murder After Hit-and-Run In SoMa The 30-year-old man who allegedly ran into and then ran over an elderly woman in SoMa on Monday has now been charged with murder.
SF News Disturbing Details Emerge In Death of 37-Year-Old Woman on Big Sur Camping Trip Friends say they're heartbroken and details remain sketchy following the death last week of a 37-year-old woman in the Ventana Wilderness area of Los Padres National Forest, near Big Sur.
SF News SF DA Charges Couple With Murder Over Toddler’s Fentanyl Overdose Death In addition to earlier charges of felony child endangerment, the district attorney's office has added murder to the charges against an SF couple whose two-year-old daughter died of a fentanyl overdose in February — the city’s first time filing a murder charge in such a case.
SF Politics With Swalwell Out, New Governor's Race Poll Has Republicans In Lead, But Democrats on the Rise Several Democrats in the race for California governor gained some ground in a new poll conducted just in the last two days, following the swift downfall of Eric Swalwell, but the two Republican candidates still hold a small lead.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Yolo County Explosion Defendants Make Court Appearance Six of the people indicted last week in Yolo County over last July's fireworks explosion are appearing in court; two Inner Sunset buildings had to be evacuated due to an electrical pole fire; and a missing Berkeley man has been found alive.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Snap Inc. Lays Off 1,000 Employees, Because of AI BART has had two major train issues during rush hour in the last day; a wealthy benefactor in LA kicked Eric Swalwell out of his house; and Snap Inc. is laying off 1,000 employees.
SF News NYC SantaCon Organizer Accused of Diverting $1 Million In Donations to Personal Account When SF’s organizers disavowed SantaCon in 2014 due to the chaos it brought the city every Christmas, one of the event’s organizers in NYC leaned into the chaos by forming a charity — at first to appease officials and then later to allegedly collect and divert funds for personal use.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Philz CEO Says Pride Flags Still Are Coming Down, Despite Pushback, and 'Unifying' Artwork Will Replace Them It's hard to understand where Philz CEO Mahesh Sadarangani is coming from other than a place of fear and Trump-inspired bigotry, but in a confidential memo to employees he's apparently digging in on this Pride flag issue, controversy be damned.
SF News Video Suggests SoMa Hit-and-Run Death Was Intentional Video that was posted to Reddit appears to show the moments before, during, and after a woman was killed near the intersection of Mission and South Van Ness on Monday.
SF Politics Candidates for Governor Attend Sacramento Forums, Say Swalwell Exit Signals Fresh Start Several California gubernatorial candidates attended two forums in Sacramento Tuesday where they discussed issues affecting Latino and Hispanic communities throughout the state. While one forum heavily discussed the Swalwell scandal, the other left him out of the discussion entirely.
SF News Case of Measles Found In San Francisco Infant Following International Travel An infant in San Francisco has contracted the measles virus and is infectious, according to the SF Department of Public Health, in the first known measles case in the city since 2019.
Business & Tech Anthropic's New Model, Mythos, Is So Dangerous It Isn't Being Released to the Public Anthropic's latest AI model, named Claude Mythos Preview, is capable of hacking into major banking systems, perhaps many at once, and doing massive damage if it fell into the wrong hands. Banks are being encouraged to test it out.
Business & Tech Allbirds, Which Was a Shoe Company, Is Becoming an AI Company Well that's what you'd call a pivot. Allbirds, the once buzzy Silicon Valley shoe brand, is not going to make shoes anymore (though the brand may live on?), and instead it's going to become an AI company.
SF Politics Special Election Set For August to Replace Eric Swalwell In Congress Eric Swalwell's seat in Congress, which he officially vacated on Tuesday, will remain empty until late summer, and now a special election date has been set.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Sees Early Morning Disruption From Disabled Train BART had an early morning service disruption due to a disabled train in SF; the parents of the 20-year-old man who allegedly tried to firebomb Sam Altman's house speak out; and San Jose authorities begin clearing out "The Jungle" once again.
SF News Day Around the Bay: East Bay College Eliminates Debt of Graduating Students Billionaires Michael Moritz and Chris Larsen have donated $4 million to Mayor Lurie’s city charter reform measures; JD Vance says the pope should be more mindful when he discusses theology; and Contra Costa College in the East Bay is forgiving up to $1,000 in student debt.
SF News ‘Dateline’ Airs Episode on Silicon Valley Woman Who Went Missing In Taiwan In 2019 A new episode of NBC’s ‘Dateline’ covers the case of Mountain View resident Alice Ku who disappeared while traveling in Taiwan in 2019 with her husband — the prime suspect, but loopholes surrounding his Canadian citizenship enabled him to avoid trial in the US and extradition to Taiwan.
SF News Expect Weird Traffic This Weekend as Section of I-80 In San Francisco Will Be Closed For Two Days Caltrans is doing ongoing construction on a section of I-80 through the middle of San Francisco, and a portion of eastbound I-80 will be completely closed for 55 hours this weekend, forcing motorists onto surface streets to get to the Bay Bridge.
Arts & Entertainment SF Rare Coin Dealer Announces Third Annual Citywide Scavenger Hunt It's another adult scavenger hunt, kids, and the prizes this time are worth a grand total of $50,000, if you're the first to solve the riddles and find the coins.
SF News DA Charges Driver Accused of Killing Toddler In Mission Bay With Vehicular Manslaughter The Walnut Creek driver who’s accused of fatally striking a two-year-old child in a Mission Bay crosswalk in February was charged with vehicular manslaughter, and the city recently installed safety improvements at the intersection.
SF Politics Eric Swalwell Could Now Face Rape Charge In Los Angeles as New Accuser Comes Forward A fifth accuser has come forward with potential criminal charges against former Congressman Eric Swalwell, one day after he announced his resignation from the House, and two days after he suspended his bid for California governor.
Business & Tech Young Man Who Allegedly Came From Texas to Kill Sam Altman Makes Court Appearance on Attempted Murder Charge The man who allegedly tossed a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's Russian Hill home last Friday was scheduled to make his first court appearance Tuesday on attempted murder and other charges.
