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"Jesus and Kathia are not sure what to do now, or where they will sleep if their vehicle is towed. The options for family shelter are limited until her child is born, she said, and she does not want to leave her dog, who also lives in her RV, behind."
https://missionlocal.org/2025…

RV dwellers say S.F. homeless outreach worker is selling parking permits for hundreds in cash
The city is investigating allegations into a man dressed as an outreach worker. In text exchanges, an RV dweller begs for his money back.

Sources: OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with investors about raising tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100B, at a valuation of around $750B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-discuss…

OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Tens of Billions at Valuation Around $750 Billion
OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with some investors about raising new funding at a valuation of around $750 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. It could raise tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100 billion, according to two of the people. Talks ...

SEC filing: WBD says the Ellisons offered David Zaslav a compensation package of several hundred million dollars, which Zaslav said was inappropriate to discuss (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ins

Inside the Fractious WBD-Paramount Deal Talks Between Ellison, Zaslav
WBD presented a chronology of events and meetings that occurred, leading to its deal to sell Warner Bros. studios and HBO Max to Netflix, following by David Ellison’s hostile takeover bid and the WBD board’s official rejection of the $30/share bid on Dec. 17.

It’s amazing how these people talk about AGI as if it was actually possible (it’s not).
What’s being sold as “AI” currently is slightly random statistical token chain generation; it has zero to do with thinking, intelligence or creativity.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/17/why-trillions-dollars-risk-no-guarantee-ai-reward

"I'm a technology writer, which means I'm supposed to be encouraging you to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at the money-losingest technology in human history, AI. No one has ever lost as much money as the AI companies."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not

Join us for our first Slow Streets Slow Ride of 2026 on Sunday, Feb 1st!
Start: Balboa Park, 11am (roll out 11:30)
End: Dolores Park
Slow Streets covered: Cayuga, Somerset, Bayview multimodal corridor, Minnesota, 20th St
#sfba #bikeSF

Brandon LaRoque kept his life savings in a cryptocurrency account.
One morning, as he went to check his balance, he discovered that it was all missing.
LaRoque is one of many victims of the unregulated crypto industry,
and soon there may be more.
Donald Trump has rolled back regulation of the industry.
At the same time, he and his family have earned untold billions of dollars from new crypto ventures.
Molly White, a writer focused on the intersection…

How Crypto Is Used for Political Corruption
This new source of money is giving the administration unprecedented new powers.

So we face a serious crisis with #ClimateChange, where we know what has to be done and how to do it, but we chose not to invest in it.
And we know we have the resources, because trillions are being spent on speculative investments in AI, which currently is aggravating the #ClimateCrisis wi…

Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in late-stage talks to raise several hundred million dollars at a $2B valuation (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/a-new-world-model-startup-is-quietly

A new world model startup is quietly raising big money
General Intuition is building a general-purpose AI agent and world model.