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.
Wage cuts, ‘incompetent’ managers, and a workplace treated ‘like a dumpster’
Two former baristas spill the beans on working at Corgi Cafe
Losing cope: The tech right braces for a brave new world
Soaked by the blue wave, Trump-loving tech bros are shivering over what’s in store
Tech Twitter’s monster mash
Plus, do AI safety PACs really care about safeguarding the technology?
Anthropic has filed for IPO. And so it begins
Plus, is demand for compute high enough to justify all these data centers?
More AI researchers defect from Google DeepMind, fueling rumors of a sclerotic strategy inside the company
The three young engineers behind new data startup Data-Limited Regime are claiming they turned down the tech giant’s $300M retention offer
Civic Joy Fund gets the punk parody it deserves
You can learn nothing about a16z’s private ‘You Can See Everything’ showing
Everyone was friendly but notably sketchy at the AMC Metreon, where the VC firm co-hosted a screening with one of the film’s producers
Mercor cuts at least 50 employees across multiple teams
New people chief at the company promised to ‘keep the talent bar high,’ though some terminated employees were considered ‘top performers’ and recently received raises
The hottest club at Tech Week is a line
This line has everything: Anthropic super fans, promotional coffee, free API credits, and women with phone numbers
Paul Graham takes on Pope Leo XIV (Biblical fail!)
Plus, AI finally gives us something of value: A fun new meme











