UCSF surgeons moved a patient from a total artificial heart to a human donor organ, giving a Bay Area cook who’d lived months on a mechanical pump a new chance with his family. The case highlights device options — and persistent donor shortages.

A new alliance report finds Israeli‑founded firms support about 22,650 California jobs and add billions in output. The data arrives as state political debate over Israel intensifies.

Meta struck a multibillion lease with Google for TPU access, reframing compute as a metered utility and reshuffling the AI chip market. Local infrastructure choices may ripple across the Bay Area.

A Washington State University study tested 719 academic hypotheses and found ChatGPT often returned incorrect or unstable answers, prompting calls for human verification.

Brief internet outages hit the Bay Area on March 16, with Xfinity customers among those reporting dropouts and monitoring sites flagging wider spikes.

Stanford and other U.S. hospitals are testing CAR‑T as a one‑time treatment for progressive MS. Early data show immune effects but safety and repair of old damage remain uncertain.

Genomic surveys show scarlet monkeyflower evolved drought‑tolerant genes during California’s 2012–2015 megadrought, helping some populations recover — a rare example of evolutionary rescue.

Tesla faces the prospect of a third year of sliding deliveries as it ramps spending on AI and robots — investors are watching whether cash will hold.

UCSF landed $824 million in NIH awards for fiscal 2025, funding AI, cancer and infectious‑disease research and boosting the Bay Area life‑sciences economy. The haul cements UCSF’s status as the top public NIH recipient in 2025.

A San Francisco federal judge temporarily blocked Perplexity's Comet browser from shopping on Amazon and ordered collected Amazon data destroyed.

Federal probes into banks' AI hiring tools raise questions about bias in résumé screeners. Here’s what researchers and regulators are watching and how applicants can respond.

A coalition of tech researchers sued in D.C., arguing a visa policy singles out foreign experts who study social media and chills vital research.

OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo and will fold the open‑source red‑teaming toolkit into its Frontier agent platform to speed up agent security testing. Terms were not disclosed.