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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.

Mending the fabric of time

Inside the tiny, precise world of a watch repair hobbyist

November 6, 2025

Who gets a tattoo at a tech convention?

There’s no better way to remember your TechCrunch Disrupt experience forever than to get a free flash tat

October 29, 2025

The American AI strategy

As the government shutdown drags on, VCs gathered at the Commonwealth Club to look at boobs on their phones and hear two congressmen gab about AI

October 27, 2025

Artificialize your intelligence for $25 an hour

Craigslist is full of calls for ‘research participants’ to help train AI models. You only need to give a bit of your humanity

October 27, 2025

So funny we forgot to laugh

AI slop billboards have gotten so absurd that even an obvious satire is being taken seriously

October 22, 2025

Beta-testing a new world order

Today, SafetyWing wants customers for its insurance products. Tomorrow, it wants statehood

October 17, 2025

A bold approach

Writer and editor Lauren Markham introduces her print-only ‘organizing pamphlet-meets-literary magazine’ The Approach tonight at City Lights

October 15, 2025

The burning question of Big Art

As a billionaire-backed nonprofit is collaborating with the city to install 100 large-scale public art pieces around San Francisco, the art world has some notes

October 10, 2025

Will the real OpenAI please stand up?

Flyers announcing a “hardware launch” this weekend are fake

October 8, 2025

A place for TIAT

The roving artist collective that blurs the line between the physical and digital worlds is getting a brick-and-mortar gallery

October 2, 2025