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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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Finally, a defense of brainrot

It’s a modern virtue, so says an AI exec. Plus, send me tips about the gaming industry

March 9, 2026

San Francisco’s future spokespeople: Coyotes

A new city ad is rumored to be in the works, headed up by ‘Last Black Man in San Francisco’ director Joe Talbot

Cydney Hayes and Olivia Peluso

March 5, 2026

Soon Technology is tech-pilled and loving it

A Vice Media alum’s ‘new media’ company offers up friendly coverage to an increasingly controversial industry

March 4, 2026

Wars within wars

Anthropic’s loss is OpenAI’s gain. Plus, the mysterious “Dime” appears at Sightglass

March 2, 2026

Guerrilla outdoor campaign decrying ‘GROK CHILD PORN’ appears around the city

The mysterious marketing push comes amid public uproar and international investigations into sex abuse material generated by Elon Musk’s chatbot

February 24, 2026

Who (allegedly) runs tech?

Two magazines investigate. Plus, the people want a ‘Silicon Valley’ reboot

February 23, 2026

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