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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.

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

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

September 30, 2025

Specialize or die

What this month’s xAI layoffs say about the state of labor power

September 26, 2025

Kang of his own destiny

Eric Kang, the Bay Area’s coolest real estate agent, has made a career out of keeping it real

September 22, 2025

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

September 16, 2025