Demonstrators gathered outside OpenAI's annual DevDay conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, chanting "Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit" as attendees arrived. The protests featured creative displays including robot costumes and flyers criticizing the company's business practices.
At DevDay 2026 in San Francisco, OpenAI unveiled major updates including reusable cloud development environments for Codex, automatic security scanning for GitHub repositories, a new Decisions API for fast single decisions, Computer Use support in the Agents API, and an Ultrafast premium tier promising up to eight times faster performance.
The Department of Justice alleged that UC San Francisco's medical school illegally used race in admissions, discriminating against white and Asian applicants in favor of Black and Latino ones. The finding puts millions in federal funding at risk for the institution.
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed a lawsuit against Trump Media & Technology Group over its "Truth API" program, which charges subscribers $100,000 per month for early access to President Trump's and other officials' posts on Truth Social before they become publicly available.
A high-profile resignation from AI company Anthropic has brought mainstream attention to ongoing tensions in Silicon Valley over artificial intelligence safety warnings, as industry insiders continue to raise concerns about existential threats even while developing the technology. The debate played out this week as tech executives gathered at Goldman Sachs' annual San Francisco conference.
Chloe Dillon, a former San Francisco federal immigration judge, filed a lawsuit alleging the Department of Justice fired her in retaliation for raising concerns about ICE's treatment of an unaccompanied minor and resisting pressure to fast-track a deportation case.
Sapien, a two-year-old San Francisco-based AI startup, has raised a new funding round led by Neo's Ali Partovi at a $180 million valuation. The company is expanding beyond financial planning software into broader operational analysis systems for enterprises.
San Francisco-based Lightsage has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Nexus Venture Partners to build what it calls an 'Agent-Led Growth' platform, helping software companies optimize their products to be discovered and chosen by AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor rather than human users.
San Francisco-based startup Clipto has raised $15 million in equity financing at a $250 million valuation to expand its AI technology that searches through terabytes of video and forgotten files using natural language queries.
San Francisco-based startup Clipto has raised $15 million in equity financing at a $250 million valuation to expand its AI technology that searches through terabytes of video and forgotten files using natural language queries.
Dunamu, operator of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, has entered a strategic partnership with Visa to develop stablecoin-based payment systems, cross-border remittances, and AI-driven financial services. The roadmap unveiled in San Francisco includes OUSD-based business models and agentic commerce initiatives.
A federal jury convicted Japheth Dillman, founder of Block Bits Capital, of wire fraud and conspiracy after he raised nearly $1 million from over 20 investors by falsely claiming his crypto fund used a complete, working proprietary automated trading system. The 48-year-old San Francisco resident faces sentencing for operating the fraudulent crypto trading fund.
San Francisco-based venture firm Reach Capital has closed its fifth and largest fund at $265 million, targeting early-stage AI startups building applications designed to augment human capabilities rather than replace workers. The 11-year-old firm's thesis focuses on backing founders developing AI to 'expand human potential.'
Bitwise Asset Management has laid off approximately 14% of its staff, reducing headcount from nearly 180 to around 155 employees, as the crypto market downturn continues. CEO Hunter Horsley stated the San Francisco-based firm remains well-positioned for future growth despite the reduction.
Waymo's driverless taxi service is experiencing rapid expansion to San Francisco and 14 other cities, but the scaling effort is accompanied by an increasing number of technical problems and glitches. The company appears to be prioritizing growth over resolving operational issues.
Smart ring maker Oura is facing a proposed class action lawsuit filed in San Francisco alleging the company deceived consumers about the accuracy of its sleep tracking features. The lawsuit challenges whether the ring can identify sleep stages as precisely as clinical equipment.
San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup Horizon3 announced a $250 million Series E funding round that values the company at over $2 billion, more than tripling its $650 million valuation from June 2025. The company specializes in autonomous penetration testing and AI-driven security solutions.
Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung presented the company's Physical AI roadmap at a San Francisco AI Summit and met with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to discuss collaboration on autonomous driving, robotics, and manufacturing AI. The meetings occurred as South Korean President Lee Jae Myung led a delegation of business leaders to deepen AI partnerships with global tech companies.
President Lee Jae-myung is scheduled to begin an 11-day tour on July 24, visiting San Francisco, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Germany. In San Francisco, he will hold separate meetings with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and attend an AI summit. He will then hold summit talks in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina before stopping in Frankfurt to meet members of the Korean community and returning on August 3.
Together AI, a San Francisco-based AI cloud platform, and HUMAIN, an AI solutions company owned by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund PIF, announced a strategic partnership at the LEAP conference to accelerate deployment of AI infrastructure and cloud services in Saudi Arabia.
