Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

In a city dripping with cash, San Francisco can’t get its kids to school.

“I'm just a dad that wants to go back to work.”

Putrid vibes reigned at SF billionaire-funded Hamilton Society debate.

Putrid vibes reigned at SF billionaire-funded Hamilton Society debate.

Human feces isn’t even the nastiest thing they’ve found in the backseat.

How to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground By Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney A dancing ledge, as viewed from above. Image: Will...

How to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground By Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney A dancing ledge, as viewed from above. Image: Will...

How to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground By Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney A dancing ledge, as viewed from above. Image: Will...

By: Decca Muldowney and Emily M. Bender Emily was interviewed for two documentaries which premiered at Sundance this year: The AI Doc: How I Became an...

A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough.

OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.

We read this week in the Wall Street Journal that Meta is on the prowl for more content to train its ever-hungry AI tools and chatbot.

It’s that time of year again, when fall is in the air and “AI” is back and worse than ever, creepy-crawling into every corner of our education system.

Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley, explains what those weird tech billboards are really saying

Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley, explains what those weird tech billboards are really saying

Bay Area Current covers the news unabashedly from the left and highlights working-class issues too often ignored by the media.

Oakland’s downtown Greyhound bus station was a center of working-class life for decades. Now it's owned by the “Uber of buses.”

Oakland’s downtown Greyhound bus station was a center of working-class life for decades. Now it's owned by the “Uber of buses.”

A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area

Bay Area Current covers the news unabashedly from the left and highlights working-class issues too often ignored by the media.

When protesters burned Waymo vehicles in the streets of Los Angeles it wasn’t wanton destruction. It was a direct message from the working class.

Karen England is successfully teaching people how to remove books from school libraries, even outside of their school districts, starting with refusing to use the term “book ban.”