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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.

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