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.
So funny we forgot to laugh
AI slop billboards have gotten so absurd that even an obvious satire is being taken seriously
Beta-testing a new world order
Today, SafetyWing wants customers for its insurance products. Tomorrow, it wants statehood
A bold approach
Writer and editor Lauren Markham introduces her print-only ‘organizing pamphlet-meets-literary magazine’ The Approach tonight at City Lights
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
Will the real OpenAI please stand up?
Flyers announcing a “hardware launch” this weekend are fake
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
Letter from Oakland: Local Economy about to take off
Alexis Madrigal and Sarah Rich’s new ‘inclusive club’ in Rockridge already has a 300-person waitlist
Kang of his own destiny
Eric Kang, the Bay Area’s coolest real estate agent, has made a career out of keeping it real
Can local news help Nextdoor recover its neighborly reputation?
The neighborhood-based social networking app is hoping local news partnerships can boost engagement and save news deserts










