Tech
What did Sam Altman and Steve Kerr say at the Sydney Goldstein Theater?
Even a super intelligent bot can learn something when an AI executive and an NBA coach discuss leadership, innovation, & San Francisco
Who gets a tattoo at a tech convention?
There’s no better way to remember your TechCrunch Disrupt experience forever than to get a free flash tat
The American AI strategy
As the government shutdown drags on, VCs gathered at the Commonwealth Club to look at boobs on their phones and hear two congressmen gab about AI
Artificialize your intelligence for $25 an hour
Craigslist is full of calls for ‘research participants’ to help train AI models. You only need to give a bit of your humanity
Pay to play
'Relationships company' 222 wants to solve the loneliness problem with an algorithm
So funny we forgot to laugh
AI slop billboards have gotten so absurd that even an obvious satire is being taken seriously
Beta-testing a new world order
Today, SafetyWing wants customers for its insurance products. Tomorrow, it wants statehood
A bold approach
Writer and editor Lauren Markham introduces her print-only ‘organizing pamphlet-meets-literary magazine’ The Approach tonight at City Lights
Don’t let the sun go down on green tech
Otherlab’s Mission district headquarters was a white hot center for clean, renewable technologies. Will the Trump administration snuff it out?
The burning question of Big Art
As a billionaire-backed nonprofit is collaborating with the city to install 100 large-scale public art pieces around San Francisco, the art world has some notes









