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Sara Bee

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Aka Sara Bloomberg. Covering Tech and AI for AFP. Not related to that other Bloomberg. linktr.ee/sarambloomberg

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 24/07/2026
Paramount Skydance agreed on Friday to delay its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery while a US lawsuit seeking to block the deal moves forward. u.afp.com/Sr7H @sarambee.bsky.social
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Felt this one in SF 😳
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
How will the newly formed OpenAI Foundation eventually spend billions of dollars? Apparently, not on affordable housing in its hometown of San Francisco. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Sam Altman says funding affordable housing would be too expensive for OpenAI - San Francisco Business Times
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Warriors coach Steve Kerr weighed in on housing, wealth inequality and San Francisco during a live event hosted by Manny's Café.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Dreamforce Day 2: Figure AI founder and CEO implied that the humanoid robotics startup might sell to police departments one day. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Figure AI founder dodges Marc Benioff's question about selling humanoid robots to S.F. police - San Francisco Business Times
The CEO of humanoid robotics startup Figure AI says he won't sell its robots to the military. But what about police departments? Here's what Brett Adcock said at Dreamforce in San Francisco.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
ICYMI: here's what happened on Day 1 of Dreamforce in San Francisco this week. Benioff avoided politics for most of the day, then brought "special guest" David Sacks on stage to talk about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, AI and crypto. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Benioff avoids politics in Dreamforce keynote, but then brings out Trump adviser David Sacks - San Francisco Business Times
Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference kicked off Tuesday. Here's what Marc Benioff said, and what he didn't say, after making controversial comments about San Francisco last week.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Eat Just will launch a mung bean flour for baking soon and is also developing a new vegan chicken product.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The company started with a vegan mayo over a decade ago and now sells an egg alternative, protein powder and lab-grown chicken.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Will Eat Just IPO? How many ways can it use a mung bean? And why is CEO Josh Tetrick prepared for this to be his "last year"? I recently sat down with Josh at the company's Alameda headquarters to talk about this and more. Here's our full conversation. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Josh Tetrick standing outside of Eat Just's headquarters, hands clasped in front of him.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Tim Draper has raised $200 million for a new VC fund at his firm Draper Associates which has made a bunch of new investments this month.
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ICEBlock Official @iceblock.app · 30/06/2025
ICEBlock on CNN! #resist
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"Everybody's got a price." Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence. Who might be the next big acquisition target? Here's what one expert told me last week after Mark Zuckerberg poached Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 12/06/2025
Forcibly removing someone for asking questions at a press conference and then telling bystanders they can't record cops putting them in handcuffs is authoritarian and contrary to everything the First Amendment stands for.
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Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla forcibly removed after trying to question DHS Secretary Noem
Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla tried to as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question. He was instead forcibly removed from her press conference.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Could a VC fund create a new revenue stream for local governments? Berkeley Mayor Adena Ishii wants to find out. More details from my conversation with the mayor here. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
portrait of Berkeley Mayor Adena Ishii.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Elon Musk confirmed in a new legal filing that he dropped just shy of $45 million into OpenAI before he left the organization in 2018. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
My latest cover story looks at University of California, Berkeley and its new approach to venture capital. Can the school catch the next trillion dollar company that emerges from the UC system? www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
A wide shot of the iron Sather Gate at the entrance of UC Berkeley.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
"You are not going to get replaced by AI” … but "you are going to be replaced by people who know AI." I talked to Glean CEO Arvind Jain ahead of Glean Go in San Francisco. Here’s what he had to say about agents, jobs, raising funding and IPOs. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"We're doing this to bring back this idea of starter homes." I talked to the co-founder of Berkeley startup Type Five about how it's using modular design and software to make homebuilding more efficient and affordable. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Osteoboost sends "low-amplitude, high-frequency" vibrations to the hips and spine, and it received de novo approval from the FDA last year. It's available by prescription for postmenopausal women with low bone density, aka osteopenia.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"We are mimicking that mechanism of action" from activities like weight lifting, Osteoboost CEO Laura Yecies told me.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This new vibrating belt could be a game changer for women with osteopenia. Made by a Bay Area company, it slows down bone density loss and might even help reverse it before osteoporosis develops. I talked to CEO Laura Yecies who uses the belt herself.
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Shake it off: Bay Area startup's new vibrating belt can preserve bone density - San Francisco Business Times
A Redwood City startup has developed a vibrating belt that boosts bone density in postmenopausal women with osteopenia. Here's how it works, and how to get it.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“I don't love easy. I love being a driver, not a passenger," Instacart CEO Fidji Simo told me last year. Her next chapter will be driving operations at OpenAI. Here's my story and interview with Fidji from December. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"This went from a radical concept that was very risky to something that now looks very institutional, systematic, repeatable." I talked to SignalFire co-founder Chris Farmer about the firm's new $1 billion fund and adapting to shifting headwinds. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
SignalFire co-founders Ilya Kirnos and Chris Farmer pose in front of a window that oversees San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Despicable. ICE targets a prominent union activist who has been working on US farms since he was 14.
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ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley
Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
UPDATE: OpenAI Startup Fund has now raised $129 million across five SPVs, according to filings that I reviewed. Here's how it all breaks down: www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"We actually have a lot of tunability to being able to make a bunch of different types of fats ... But we think butter is a really important market entry point," co-founder and CEO Kathleen Alexander told me.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Earlier this month, I attended a dinner featuring food made with a new type of vegan butter developed by San Jose startup Savor. It's not "plant-based," though. Here's what I ate and what the company is up to. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Berkeley is one step closer to launching a new venture capital fund after a UC Regents committee advanced the proposal to the full board. We also now know how big the fund might be. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"Twenty years from now, it really should be that everybody in the country has a primary care dietitian right alongside his primary care doctor." I talked to Foodsmart founder Jason Langheier and new CEO Kurt Knight about what the nutrition telehealth is up to. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Ron Leuty @rleutybiotech.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Healthcare AI company, fresh off a $250M round, looks to hire 150 people, most of them in San Francisco www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Felt that one for several seconds in the Mission. Magnitude 4.2 near Dublin. 🫨 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Scoop: UC Berkeley wants to launch a new VC fund that would invest in startups and other funds affiliated with the UC system. It would also return nearly all of its profits to the Berkeley campus. Here's what we know. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
A portrait of UC Berkeley Chancellor Richard Lyons standing outside in front of the Haas School of Business.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Rati Levesque was employee #1 at The RealReal. Now she's CEO. I chatted with her about competition from fakes, emerging trends like loud luxury, and how growing up in the Bay Area in an immigrant family has influenced her life. 📸 by @adampardee.bsky.social www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Portrait of Rati Levesque sitting on a pale teal couch next to a coffee table that has a book and vase of flowers. A golden-toned wall is in the background.
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Fast Forward @ffwdorg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Check out our new Accelerator cohort in the San Francisco Business Times! @sarambee.bsky.social highlights the 10 organizations using tech to drive impact. Read more: www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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10 nonprofits selected for Fast Forward tech accelerator in San Francisco - San Francisco Business Times
San Francisco nonprofit tech accelerator Fast Forward has selected 10 organizations for its latest program which is supported by the philanthropic arms of companies like Google, Salesforce, Bloomberg, OpenAI, Okta and others.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This new complaint against DOGE is truly cranked up to 11 from start to finish. What a way to start a lawsuit storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... h/t @mikesacks.bsky.social
INTRODUCTION
1. Defendant Elon Musk is not, legally, the President of the United States, nor is he a
federal elected official of any kind. And Mr. Musk is not a Senate-confirmed officer of the United
States. But he and his so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE)—not, in fact, a
federal executive department—are lawlessly and unconstitutionally wielding sweeping power
across the executive branch. As Mr. Musk and DOGE lawlessly seize power over large swaths of
federal spending, decimate the federal workforce, and dismantle federal agencies, they are severely
harming, and threatening further imminent harm, to everyday Americans.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What's an AI agent worth? $20/month? $200/month? How about $20,000/month? OpenAI is exploring some eye-popping subscriptions. www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
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OpenAI Plots Charging $20,000 a Month For PhD-Level Agents
OpenAI is betting big on ChatGPT, which is generating at least $4 billion in annualized revenue. But that’s not the only application the AI firm is hoping will make big bucks. If you saw our story las...
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Tldr: The actual robot was manufactured by Agility Robotics and U.C. Berkeley researchers were testing the robot's ability to walk up steep hills, powered by their advanced robotics software. No more real-world tests are planned.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Here's the story behind the headless robot. Many thanks to @jrdnbwn.bsky.social for talking to me for this story. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hi Jordan, I'm working on a story about this for the SF Business Times and would love to chat with you about it today or tomorrow morning. Sent you a LinkedIn message (can't DM you here). My email is sbloomberg@bizjournals.com. Thanks
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/02/2025
NEW: Marocco has tried shutting down nearly all USAID programs & freezing foreign aid. He’s led the charge to place nearly all USAID staff on administrative leave. Officials said they see the move as retribution against those who opposed his earlier work. By @annamaria.bsky.social + Brett Murphy
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Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy
Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign ...
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Steve Rhodes @steverhodes.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
No to ethnic cleansing’: over 350 rabbis sign ad in Feb 13 New York Times assailing Trump’s Gaza plan www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/fe… Full list which is growing www.saynotoethniccleansing.org #Trump #NYTimes
NEW YORK TIMES, THURS, FEB 13, 2025

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Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza.
Jewish people say
NO
to ethnic cleansing!

Ben Cohen (not full list in ad)

Joey soloway
Boots Riley

Judith Butler
Naomi Klein
Peter Beinart

Sandi DuBowski

Tony Kushner
Wally Shawn

Rabbi Art Donsky, MSW, MPH

Rabbi Becky Silverstein 
Rabbi Bob RottenbergNEW YORK TIMES, THURS, FEB 13, 2025

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Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza.

Jewish people say
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to ethnic cleansing!Bottom of full page ad in New York Times with many names of Rabbis & others who signed
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
So RFK Jr came out of the gate with a broad statement decrying medication for depression, anxiety, ADHD, weight loss, and god knows what else. you know what went unmentioned? HGH. Look at him (or almost any guy in Hollywood these days) and ask yourself... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I am just going to keep on posting this every day until the White House stops unconstitutionally punishing the AP for not using "Gulf Of America." We're on Day 3 now.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"You do not need a quantum computer to fight a quantum computer ... You just need better math," QuSecure's co-founder and CEO Rebecca Krauthamer told me.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
While almost everyone else is chasing artificial intelligence, a San Mateo cybersecurity startup is already looking beyond the current AI hype towards a future when quantum computing starts breaking traditional encryption.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Car sharing company Getaround is shutting down its U.S.-based operations but maintaining its business in Europe. Nearly all U.S. employees will be laid off.
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Car rental service Getaround shutters U.S. business - San Francisco Business Times
San Francisco-based car-rental service Getaround is shutting down its U.S.-based business and will only maintain operations in Europe. Here's what we know.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Ten countries have also signed onto a related "charter" promoting the development of AI in the public interest: France, Chile, Finland, Germany, India, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Slovenia and Switzerland. Note who's not on that list. Full story 👇
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
ROOST wasn't the only nonprofit to launch during the Paris AI Action Summit. Current AI launched with $400M to globally promote open source technology, access to high quality data, and establishing frameworks around transparency and accountability. Google and Salesforce are backing the effort.
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Sara Bee @sarambee.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
ROOST will develop open source tools and provide them for free to companies and organizations of all sizes around the world. One noted priority is detecting and reporting child sexual abuse content.
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