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Forget “Florida Man.” Want to hear a California Man story?  Here goes.  A California man rolled up to a yoga studio in San Francisco’s Marina District in a self-driving Waymo car, walked into the studio, grabbed an armful of yoga shorts, got back in the Waymo and took off.  Six months later, police still haven’t found him, according to a story this week in The San Francisco Chronicle. Since the rider’s credit card information didn’t lead to an arrest, we can assume the perp used a stolen phone’s Waymo account and financial information to hail the ride. And by the time police requested interior video of the man’s face, Waymo had already deleted it.  This is a “California Man” story in part because of the association of Waymo with the city of San Francisco. Soon that association will be obsolete. (In fact, while Waymo is headquartered in San Francisco and is more visible there, Arizona got Waymos two years before San Francisco did.)  At the moment, Waymos are publicly available to riders

A San Francisco start-up called Arena found that people are most likely to use A.I. agents on the job, particularly if they are in the tech industry.

The Casper AI Toolkit, the most extensive AI offering of any Layer 1 blockchain, was introduced today by the Casper Association. It allows AI agents to do two tasks that no other L1 stack now fully supports in production: writing, testing, and deploying new apps without human assistance, as well

AI's growing influence prompts regulatory focus, impacting global collaboration, investment strategies, and market dynamics significantly. The post US Treasury Secretary Bessent meets with LLM labs in San Francisco appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

AI's growing influence prompts regulatory focus, impacting global collaboration, investment strategies, and market dynamics significantly. The post US Treasury Secretary Bessent meets with LLM labs in San Francisco appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Several real estate listings in the San Francisco Bay Area are offering to exchange a home for a piece of the AI startup.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2, 2026 — The Center for AI Safety (CAIS), a nonprofit focused on reducing societal-scale risks from artificial intelligence, today announced the appointment of Devin Kim as its […] The post Center for AI Safety Expands Leadership, Creates National Security-Focused AI Institute appeared first on AIwire.

Microsoft’s annual developer conference is kicking off on June 2nd in San Francisco with the keynote presentation streaming live at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT, and we will be following along here with everything as it’s announced.  The Verge’s Tom Warren reports that we can expect to hear about new AI models and agentic OpenClaw-like tools, plus a Copilot “super app” to go along with some of the major changes to Windows 11 that have already started appearing. Microsoft just announced the new Surface Laptop Ultra, powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark, so there could be more Windows on ARM news in store.  Follow along here for the latest news and updates. How to watch Microsoft’s Build 2026 conference Microsoft to unveil new AI models and Windows improvements at Build Microsoft’s big developer conference returns to San Francisco in June