Cydney Hayes

Cydney Hayes is a business and tech reporter for Gazetteer SF. She has previously written about tech, culture, music, and media for The Drift, Architectural Digest, Baltimore, Entertainment Weekly, and elsewhere. She also writes a Substack newsletter called OPENWORLD. Subscribe at openw0rld.substack.com.
Hand in hand
In the Panhandle, an 18-year-old is building muscles and community through arm wrestling
Tech holiday parties are getting smaller
Holiday parties used to feature Greek gods and Gatsby themes. Now they’re lucky to have a magician or inflatable shark
All the edgelords pray at Star of the Sea
Among the tech bros who funded a shrine to the first millennial saint at a church on Geary Boulevard
Cloudflare CEO: Resistance to Gemini is coming from inside Google
It’s the latest shot fired by Cloudflare amid concerns over the search giant’s use of its monopoly to hoover up AI control
Dear Abby: Enough is enough
Abby Connect is the latest AI company to resort to ragebait for a billboard campaign. It may also be the most ridiculous
Charlie Day’s team didn’t know about those tech billboards
San Francisco-based AI company Kilo Code plastered the city with ads riffing on a popular meme from ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.’ That was news to the actor’s Los Angeles-based gang
Exit, pursued by ChatGPT
Adam Strauss’s ‘Before I Forget’ puts AI centerstage whether audiences want it there or not
Department of Public Health reached out to local tattoo artist about permitting after TechCrunch Disrupt
Tattd, a tattoo app, put a Hayes Valley artist and her clients at risk for an off-the-books pop-up last month










