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

Felt this one in SF 😳

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M 3.2 - 3 km SSW of Colma, CA Link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75271341

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...

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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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...

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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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...

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.

ICEBlock on CNN! #resist

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Last week I spoke about ICEBlock (@iceblock.app) with the incredible @claresduffy.bsky.social from CNN and it’s now live. She’ll be on air at 9:45am EST this morning talking about it. Let’s help keep people, and their communities, safe by encouraging everyone to use it. #resist

"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.

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.

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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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...

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...

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...

"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...

"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...

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.

Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?

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.

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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“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...

"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...

Despicable. ICE targets a prominent union activist who has been working on US farms since he was 14.

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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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...

Sara Bee@sarambee.bsky.social · 2y ago

The OpenAI Startup Fund has been scooping up cash this year. I found $70 million in total capital raised across four special purpose vehicles, including $10 million disclosed just today. Here's what we know. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

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...

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...

Sara Bee@sarambee.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

"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...

Healthcare AI company, fresh off a $250M round, looks to hire 150 people, most of them in San Francisco www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Felt that one for several seconds in the Mission. Magnitude 4.2 near Dublin. 🫨 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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...

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...

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...

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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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