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.
Can local news help Nextdoor recover its neighborly reputation?
The neighborhood-based social networking app is hoping local news partnerships can boost engagement and save news deserts. If only all their partners knew about it
Let them eat cake
The team behind the controversial ‘Stop hiring humans’ campaign attempts to stay buzzy without the ragebaiting
The work of art in the age of artificial intelligence
The experimental art collective TIAT is bringing together artists, technologists, and hundreds of admirers who want a robot to draw them
Literary synergy
Green Apple Books co-owner Pete Mulvihill is now also an agent, trading on the insights he’s learned on the frontline of bookselling
Page against the machine
San Francisco’s zinesters are fighting AI slop, surveillance capitalism, and corporate media one indie pub at a time
Electropocalypse Now
The Electrify Expo at Alameda Ferry Point revealed the survivalist subculture buzzing within the EV industry
Job hunting is now a full-time job
With AI breaking both sides of the hiring process, LinkedIn is less a platform to find work than a place to vent about how bad the search has become
In between gods, looking for work
I went to an 'AI salon' at The Commons SF, expecting to find radical techies working to accumulate power. Instead, I found loneliness — and a lot of existential dread.