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AI firms keep gobbling up office space, adding momentum to S.F. recovery
January 16, 2025 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Douglas Sams – Editor-in-chief, Atlanta Business Chronicle Jan 15, 2025 Updated Jan 15, 2025 2:12pm PST In only a few years, AI companies have extended their real estate footprint across the city by leasing millions of square feet, enough to fill a modern San Francisco skyscraper several times over. The emerging sector, from newly formed startups to […]
Mountain View security robot maker launches $12M stock offering
November 27, 2024 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Anthony Duignan-Cabrera – Contributor, Silicon Valley Business Journal Nov 25, 2024 STORY HIGHLIGHTS Knightscope Inc. announced a public offering to raise $12.1 million. Knightscope signed a deal with Verizon Business for secure connectivity. Knightscope expanded services with Draganfly Inc. for aerial security. Knightscope Inc., a Mountain View company that focuses on AI and self-driving tech, hopes […]
October 10, 2024 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Sara Bloomberg – Staff Reporter, San Francisco Business Times Oct 2, 2024 OpenAI has raised more than $6.5 billion in fresh capital from Thrive Capital and other investors in a round that valued the company at more than $150 billion valuation, cementing its place as one of the most funded AI startups in the world. Speculation has […]
In major shift, S.F. real estate brokerage says goodbye to its agents in favor of AI
June 14, 2024 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Ted Andersen – Digital Editor, San Francisco Business Times Jun 12, 2024 Updated Jun 12, 2024 1:08pm PDT In a major shift, San Francisco-based Avenue 8 said it’s shutting down the residential real estate brokerage side of its business in favor of selling its AI-powered real estate assistant Sidekick. The company on Tuesday announced the “strategic realignment” […]
UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood aims to use AI to ‘de-clog’ health care
May 24, 2024 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Ron Leuty – Senior Reporter, San Francisco Business Times May 23, 2024 In the $7 billion business that is UCSF Health, Sam Hawgood knows there’s no magic bullet for improving health care. But nearly two years into an effort to insert AI where it can, the University of California, San Francisco, chancellor is seeing […]
Through The Eyes of AI
December 17, 2023 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Tomas Ovalle – Staff Photographer, Silicon Valley Business Journal Dec 15, 2023 Artificial intelligence has infiltrated technology and in a short time become a ubiquitous change agent. I wanted to do a portrait project incorporating those AI leaders who have theorized, harnessed and developed this modern tech. I wanted to find out what AI’s visual opinion […]
