Tag: AI
New Controller’s Report Finds San Francisco Lost 21,000 Jobs in Last Three Months
According to a new report from the San Francisco City Controller’s office, the city and county lost 21,000 jobs between December 2023 and February 2024, due largely to a mix of holiday layoffs and further firings within the tech industry....
San Francisco Office Vacancy Rates Reach Record High
According to a new report by real estate firm CBRE, San Francisco’s office-vacancy rate rose to a new record high of 36.6% in the first quarter of 2024, albeit with some positive news that tech and AI companies could reverse...
Mayor Breed Introduces Plan To Bring 30,000 Residents, Students To Downtown By 2030
In her State of the City Address on Thursday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed unveiled a new measure to bring 30,000 more residents and students to downtown San Francisco by 2030. Since the beginning of the decade, San Francisco’s downtown...
Three Labor Unions Threaten Another Hollywood Shut Down and Strike by Summer
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Teamsters and the Hollywood Basic Crafts unions announced this week they are currently negotiating with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), hoping to avoid major Hollywood strikes like those...
The Consensus Machine and the True Peril of AI
The current explosion of artificial intelligence and machine learning uses has a lot of people worried. AI can replace human workers, write college papers, create very realistic internet deep fakes and so on – those are the worries that stand...
Two AI Bills Introduced In California Senate
Two bills designed to both expand AI research in California as well as a new framework for the state in dealing with AI companies were introduced in the state Senate on Wednesday. The first bill, Senate Bill 892, would specifically...