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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.

From Sam Altman’s ‘fun’ hair to Elon Musk’s ‘twisting’ lips: How courtroom artists capture giants

Three trial veterans describe their approaches to depicting the rich and infamous during the Musk v. Altman trial

May 20, 2026

Jury sides with Altman in OpenAI case

Plus, the Standard gets tech help from journalism’s newest whiz kid

May 18, 2026

Hell on Bay Wheels

The Google Gemini ads currently dominating the city’s bike share fleet are the latest targets for culture jamming

May 18, 2026

The aestheticization of government secrets

Plus, in shocking news, new college grads don’t like the technology that’s ruining their futures

May 11, 2026

New troubles at Mercor: Infighting, ‘face time slavery,’ and ‘inhumane working conditions’

Former staffers offer a look inside the human data startup, where the hours are brutal, employees say they’re getting stiffed, and the CEO is a 23-year-old billionaire who wants to be Elon Musk

May 5, 2026

The Anthropic cult discourse continues

Plus, the ABGmaxxing event was a flop

May 4, 2026

The girls are crabbing

The Crabby Baddies and other young, net-savvy women across the city are getting hooked on crustaceans

April 28, 2026

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