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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.

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How the uncanny valley could kill the Valley

Porn performer Siri Dahl and others have started sounding the alarm about AI's impacts on privacy, free speech, and legal sex work

February 23, 2026

The high-fantasy cult of Anthropic

Plus, its fight with the Pentagon, OpenAI and Meta race to deploy AI agents to the masses, and tasteless AI people argue about taste

February 17, 2026

The New Liberals just want to enjoy their Tax Havens

At The Irish Bank, policy wonks debate the Billionaire’s March and Georgist land taxes

February 13, 2026

Slopper Bowl LX

AI’s dark aura was all over the Big Game. Viewers were not fans

February 9, 2026

Substack reports mass data leak: ‘This sucks. I’m sorry’

The popular newsletter platform was breached in October 2025

February 4, 2026

Manic Monday: Even AI turns to crabs eventually

Plus, the Billionaires March, a blind item for female founders, and more madness from the tech world to start your week

February 2, 2026

Time to Rho

As its San Francisco team swells, the fintech startup Rho is moving to greener pastures

January 30, 2026

Busy bees

Backyards around the city are all abuzz with hidden micro apiaries

January 28, 2026

What, exactly, is OpenAI in 2026?

A new rumor that OpenAI will release earbuds hints at internal anxieties over revenue and the future of the company

January 21, 2026

Gap falls into crypto

Why has Sam Altman’s crypto project installed a biometric data-collection tool inside, of all places, the Marina Gap store?

January 20, 2026