Sam Altman's San Francisco home targeted by Molotov cocktail and gunfire in two separate attacks
Altman published a response acknowledging that "fear and anxiety about AI is justified"
San francisco articles
AI startups are filling San Francisco with cryptic billboards aimed at insiders
Instead of mass appeal, companies are embracing niche messaging that only engineers fully understand
Robotaxis can drive themselves, but still pay humans $20 to close the door
Door glitches and power outages are creating a new kind of gig work
TL;DR: For all the talk of self-driving cars erasing human labor, hundreds of Waymo vehicles across LA and San Francisco are proving the opposite. The company's robotaxis depend on people – some paid through a towing app called Honk, others working behind computer screens – to handle simple physical tasks that the machines can't manage on their own.
Waymo's robotaxis froze when San Francisco's traffic lights went dark
Autonomous vehicles stalled at intersections when traffic signals went dark, forcing the company to pause city operations
Waymo expands robotaxi service to freeways across San Francisco, LA, and Phoenix
The Alphabet unit becomes the first to offer fully driverless rides on US freeways as competition intensifies
Terraforming startup wants to save sinking cities with robot-powered land lifts
An injection of wood slurry could save a city from sinking into San Francisco Bay
San Francisco shuts down website that helped drivers avoid parking tickets – four hours after launch
Leaderboard showed five officers racking up over $15,000 in daily parking fines
What just happened? A website that helped San Francisco residents avoid parking tickets has been effectively killed off by the city, just hours after it went live and was in the process of going viral. Find My Parking Cops stopped working after the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) changed the government site where the tool was scraping its data, blocking its access to the information.
Tech entrepreneur convicted in murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee
Nima Momeni convicted of second-degree murder, acquitted of first-degree
AI startup ad campaign urges us to "stop hiring humans"
AIs won't "complain about work-life balance"
Goodbye, floppies - San Francisco pays Hitachi $212 million to remove 5.25-inch disks from its light rail service
Part of a $700 million systems overhaul
16 AI "undressing" websites sued for creating deepfaked nude images
The sites were visited 200 million times during the first six months of 2024
San Francisco bans "rent-fixing" software used by landlord cartels
Private data sets were exploited to fix rent prices, and that's definitely illegal
Waymo's robotaxi rollout overcomes regulatory roadblocks in California
Pushback from local officials continues
Google's super high-tech new office building has terrible Wi-Fi
Is that weird roof design to blame?
Waymo self-driving taxi vandalized and set ablaze by San Francisco crowd
The motive remains unknown
California DMV suspends GM Cruise's permit to operate its driverless taxis
Following several accidents and accusations that Cruise misrepresented the safety of its vehicles
Cruise self-driving car runs over and stops on pedestrian after they were hit by human driver
It's just the latest incident involving robotaxis
Cruise denies its self-driving taxis hindered ambulance response in fatal pedestrian accident
"Seconds and minutes can make a difference in whether somebody bleeds out"
Cruise robotaxis blocked San Francisco traffic again as company blames network congestion
Cruise and Waymo just gained permission to operate robotaxis 24/7
Tech execs pay tribute to Cash App founder Bob Lee following fatal stabbing in San Francisco
The incident has highlighted SF's crime problem
San Francisco supervisors pivot 180 degrees on their decision to allow killer robots
Last week they voted 8-3 for using lethal robotic force, while this week the vote was 8-3 to ban the tactic
San Francisco green lights SFPD rule allowing robotic lethal-force
"This is not [like] Robocop." Not yet, anyway
San Francisco police seek permission for its robots to use deadly force
"You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9. You have five seconds to comply."