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.
‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’
Longtime entrepreneur and critic Anil Dash on where the tech industry has been and where it may be going
Move fast and sell books
Former tech reporters Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr are running The Best Bookstore in Union Square like a startup
Server farm to table
AI-generated images are rising in popularity on delivery apps and menus across SF. How far will we take this race to the bottom in food photography?
Print is forever
As AI rises, the Bay Area is awash in a full-on print revival, from magazines to books to this website’s own quarterly paper
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









