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San Francisco fdotinc released 95 startup projects in one night, including a $500 robotic arm for 3D printers and a drone that can hang on power lines.
Within a mile around South Park in San Francisco, 18+ VC firms such as a16z, Accel, and Bessemer have gathered, managing about $200 billion in funds, making it one of the highest-density venture capital areas in the world. It's a great place for entrepreneurs to bump into investors.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is coming to San Francisco Oct 13-15, featuring Startup Battlefield, the Expo Hall, and networking opportunities. A flash sale offering up to $400 in savings ends tonight at midnight PT.
Tech Week is reminding people that submissions for SF & LA Tech Week events close in 2 weeks, encouraging potential hosts to sign up.
An opinion piece argues that cryptic AI billboards blanketing San Francisco are psychologically damaging and alienating residents, making the city feel like it belongs to AI insiders rather than the community.
AiOS San Francisco is an in-person meetup for AI and Apple platform enthusiasts, featuring talks and demos from Wendy Labs and MiniMax on Swift-powered AI, robots, embedded devices, and the MiniMax H3 video-generation model running locally on a Mac.
The vLLM Conference is coming up in San Francisco, Aug 24–26, hosted by Inferact at Ray Summit, featuring speakers from major AI infrastructure companies.
An op-ed and Bitcoin Policy Institute reports allege that foreign money, including from a Shanghai-based donor, is funding grassroots opposition to American AI data centers, resulting in billions in delayed investment. The article details coordinated campaigns in the Bay Area and beyond aimed at slowing the U.S. AI buildout.
A viral story: someone bought a San Francisco billboard advertising a new LLM, but it's actually a real person manually answering messages and hand-drawing image requests, attracting thousands of users daily until demand paused new usage.
Isopolis is an isometric pixel map of San Francisco built on OpenStreetMap and CARTO data, with neighborhood boundaries from DataSF.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 announces its Disrupt Stage lineup featuring leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, Flock Safety, and Harvey AI, along with Benchmark partners, covering topics like the future of smartphones, AI software creation, public safety, and scaling AI infrastructure. The conference takes place October 13–15 in San Francisco.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 AI Stage will feature discussions on AI security, video intelligence, and the new GTM engineering role, with speakers from Databricks, Decart, Luma AI, and Clay. The conference takes place October 13–15 in San Francisco.
The EFF argues against surveillance pricing, where companies use personal data to set different prices, and urges San Francisco supervisors to support California's AB 2654 banning the practice.
The Proto team from BrianHie's lab will participate in the re:AGENT hackathon (August 15-16 in San Francisco), a weekend for building AI scientists, datasets, and pipelines for biological design. Applications close July 30.
MiniMax announces a planned open weights mini-march in San Francisco, promoting open AI models, research, and innovation.
Amazon confirms it is closing a key AI site in San Francisco but assures that work on its top models continues.
Hugging Face CEO is heading to San Francisco to discuss with a 'rogue agent', likely referring to a controversial figure or AI system in the tech community.
GTA DataCity visualizes a San Francisco co-working dataset as a game, allowing users to explore data through an interactive experience.
An immersive 3D tour of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco using Gaussian splatting technique.
San Francisco city attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google demanding removal of AI-powered 'nudify' apps that create nonconsensual deepfake nude images, accusing the companies of aiding illegal activity and profiting from harmful technology.