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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.

Sam Altman wants to sell you these sneakers for $160, plus tax and biometric data

World x Future Basics now offer Cyto XLiftoffs at World’s Union Square eye-collection center

April 23, 2026

Reading Palantir: Why the defense tech giant’s manifesto may signal panic inside the company

The war tech firm is suffering from a lethal combo of stock price superinflation and midterms anxiety

April 22, 2026

TBPN, MIA; MTS, G2G

Plus, is Palantir’s manifesto a cry for help?

April 20, 2026

Dean Preston’s PUML is punching up

The former District 5 Supervisor is collecting progressive media talent like Infinity Stones to push the city’s narrative leftward

April 20, 2026

Rick Perlstein thinks right-wing voices on Substack are ‘a gift’

The preeminent historian of American conservatism was spotted on a bestsellers leaderboard behind Andrew Tate. He’s not too broken up about it

April 16, 2026

Slop is truth, truth slop

Plus, the attacks on Sam Altman’s house have people wondering how we got here

April 13, 2026

Come for the all-night coffee, stay for the AI insurance

There are, in fact, no corgis at the Corgi Cafe, a new startup-run 24-hour coffee shop in FiDi

April 1, 2026

Downtown murals of Iryna Zarutska are right-wing dogwhistles

Funded by tech CEOs, the outdoor displays amplify racist rhetoric under the guise of memorializing a Ukrainian refugee killed last summer

March 25, 2026

Doomsday for Delve

Plus, friends of the DSA gather to slam the tech elite

March 23, 2026