Twenty-six former Meta employees allege internal AI tools and tracking data disproportionately flagged staff on medical leave during the company’s mass layoffs and are asking a court to pause the separations.

Former lab engineers and mock‑interview marketplaces are charging hundreds to thousands as Bay Area job hunters chase frontier AI roles.

Demis Hassabis is pitching a U.S.-led, industry-funded watchdog to test frontier AI models before release; the plan follows recent export-control clashes and model gating.

More than 200 economists and AI researchers — including Nobel laureates — released a short Stanford-organized statement urging immediate policy and institutional action to prepare for AI’s economic upheaval.

UCSF has launched a nationwide Alzheimer’s trial testing whether combining an anti‑amyloid drug with an experimental tau therapy beats single drugs; initial screenings have begun.

Apple sued OpenAI, accusing the ChatGPT maker of soliciting and using confidential Apple hardware materials. The complaint names two former Apple employees and asks a San Francisco federal court to block use of those materials.

Nobel-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is leaving UC Berkeley to lead AIMATRY at Tsinghua University, citing U.S. funding concerns and a chance to scale AI-driven materials discovery.

Google will flag ads created with generative AI and provide attestation tools for advertisers. Bay Area teams should audit creative and add provenance metadata now.

San Francisco tech employers are using AI chatbots to screen white‑collar candidates — a Greenhouse survey finds the practice is widespread but opaque. Employers say bots widen the funnel; candidates demand disclosure.

Meta's Muse Image rollout lets public Instagram photos be used to generate AI images unless you opt out. Here’s the quick path to flip the setting.

Bank of America quietly provided OpenAI a $520M credit line as the company prepares for a potential IPO, a move that underscores Wall Street’s rush for AI listings.

California's new AI‑unemployment tracker finds no statewide surge, but college‑educated, highly AI‑exposed Bay Area tech workers have seen unemployment claims climb sharply.

San Francisco rolled Copilot out to 30,000 city workers, but adoption is wildly uneven: a few superusers account for much of the activity while many staff barely use it. The gap is forcing new rules and a city AI roadmap.