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.
Privacy rights advocates push back against data collection devices in Castro bars
Badlands management says they will continue to use Patronscan despite public outcry
‘AI’s not going to break your heart the way real life does’
Poet Shawn Smucker talks to Gazetteer SF about art, loneliness, and his viral poem, ‘Please Use AI’
Even Stanford grads are angry at the system
Plus, after being stuffed in lockers his whole life, Zuck was allowed to sit with the jocks at the pep rally
Why do these Castro gay bars have TSA-style face scanners?
A handful of neighborhood bars have installed facial recognition devices that collect and share customers’ names, addresses, genders, and indiscretions with each other
‘Nerdy escorts’ are selling intimacy-as-a-service to AI founders
Plus, in the tasteslop era, we’re keeping our eyes peeled for bad tech streetwear
A Stop AI activist is standing trial after blockading OpenAI HQ last year
Wynd Kaufmyn is prepared to serve time if it helps spread the group’s warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence
Can you actually buy a house with Anthropic stock? Probably not
‘You can’t just say, I’ll sell my house for a thousand almonds, or, in this case, a thousand shares of OpenAI or Anthropic’
Aella wants to know how you’d defile a cow
Could you hack it in a house full of AI doomer rationalist influencers? I’m willing to try
From Sam Altman’s ‘fun’ hair to Elon Musk’s ‘twisting’ lips: How courtroom artists capture giants
Three trial veterans describe their approaches to depicting the rich and infamous during the Musk v. Altman trial
Jury sides with Altman in OpenAI case
Plus, the Standard gets tech help from journalism’s newest whiz kid









