SF Is Winning the AI Race. Politicians Want to Kill It.
San Francisco is the only tech hub in America with growing startup formation—and city hall is doing everything it can to drive companies out.
AI is compressing software development timelines by 100x—a quarter of YC startups now have 95% of their code written by AI, and some teams are hitting $10M in revenue with fewer than 10 people. That shift is moving the scarce resource upstream from writing code to knowing what to build, while exposing new bottlenecks: the power grid can't keep up with AI compute demand, and today's AI agents lose all their context the moment a session ends. The race to solve those two constraints—energy infrastructure and persistent AI memory—is where the next wave of startups is forming.
San Francisco is the only tech hub in America with growing startup formation—and city hall is doing everything it can to drive companies out.
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A developer pointed an AI at 37-year-old C code. Today it's running in your browser. The old rules are dead.
Artificial Superintelligence means it is time to stop playing it safe and raise our ambitions
The Robinhood CEO says he loves this state. That's why his warning should terrify Sacramento.
Joe Gebbia went from selling cereal to fund a startup to becoming the nation's first Chief Design Officer. Now he's fixing government.
A billionaire spending $27 million attacks a mayor for having tech support. The irony writes itself.
Flock Safety just 7x'd what even the best homicide detective in America can do. The technology works. The question is whether your city will use it.
San Jose built ZERO market rate homes in 2024. Then Matt Mahan cut the fees, and everything changed.
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