Lisbon App Store Rebel Smacks Google With San Francisco Monopoly Showdown
Portuguese app store Aptoide sued Google in San Francisco federal court, accusing the Play Store of choking off rivals and seeking injunctions plus unspecified triple damages. The filing follows a string of antitrust rulings that have already forced changes to Android distribution.
Sal Khan Plots $10K AI Degree To Train Bay Area's Next Tech Army
Khan Academy, TED and ETS are teaming up on a competency-based B.S. in applied AI with big-tech partners and a targeted price near $10K; applications are expected in 12–18 months.
Bay Area Ad Buyers Pile On Google In High-Stakes Arbitration Blitz
Advertisers and some publishers have begun mass arbitration against Google, seeking billions after antitrust rulings that found parts of its ad tech unlawful.
Palo Alto Cyber Tycoon Grabs Tiny Peninsula Bank for AI Banking Gambit
Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk has agreed to buy Liberty Bank and plans to use the lender as a testing ground for AI‑driven financial tools, pending regulator approval.
Claude Gets New Muscle as Anthropic Plugs Into CoreWeave in San Francisco
Anthropic will run parts of Claude on CoreWeave’s Nvidia‑powered cloud as it scales. The multiyear tie‑up gives Anthropic capacity while it builds $50B in U.S. data centers.
Napa Teen Interns Help Build ‘Virtual Neurologist’ Headset To Speed Stroke Care
A Napa nonprofit's internship pipeline helped build a prototype Virtual Neurologist AR headset that organizers say could speed stroke diagnosis and is heading toward ambulance pilots.
Stanford’s Slimmed-Down Cancer Beam Room Shakes Up Palo Alto Care
Stanford Medicine has installed a compact Mevion proton system at its Palo Alto Cancer Center that hospital leaders say could begin treating patients this summer and reduce radiation to healthy tissue.
SF’s Anthropic Unleashes Mythos AI In High-Stakes Project Glasswing Bug Hunt
Anthropic and major tech partners launched Project Glasswing to give vetted defenders guarded access to a powerful 'Claude Mythos' preview that found thousands of bugs. The move aims to patch critical software before attackers can weaponize similar tools.












