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Y Combinator backtracks from controversial AI factory surveillance startup
Optifye.ai promises to make factory floors more efficient, but Y Combinator has pulled supportive posts amid a torrent of mockery
Can an AI-powered app ‘Solve SF’ and its 311 woes?
A new app offers a faster way to report issues like graffiti to the city’s 311 line by just taking a photo. Here's the lowdown — and some lingering concerns
Do Park Rangers really need to be fingerprinting hot dog vendors?
Amid a terrifying national deportation crisis, San Francisco is still trying to crack down on immigrant vendors, to little avail
Elon Musk’s DOGE is a problem. But Bay Area techies are cheering it on
Support from some of S.F.'s biggest tech figures, including Garry Tan, shows the ideology fueling tech culture
I want to get off the Muni carousel of cuts and deficits
Amid a nationwide crisis of transit, S.F. is stuck with a 1970s mentality that could wreck the agency for the future
Malls are dead. It’s time to figure out what comes next.
Every upheaval has its victims, but real estate experts see a new dawn ahead
San Francisco’s Innocence Commission seems to have been on hiatus for nearly a year
The commission, tasked with looking for wrongful convictions on behalf of the District Attorney, hasn’t met since April 2024
Saying goodbye (temporarily?) to Sam Wo, a Chinatown institution
The beloved little restaurant, which first opened around 1912, is losing its chef-owner after four decades
The city is expanding a program that helps small businesses fix broken windows and other vandalism. Is it enough?
The grant gives thousands of dollars to fix smashed storefronts, and demand is increasing — but some shop owners are hoping for further relief
Two of the city’s biggest political groups are merging — but it looks more like crisis response than evolution
TogetherSF and Neighbors for a Better SF spent millions on the November election, with little to show for it. Will joining forces get them any more?