11+ hour, 1+ min ago   (202+ words) Frazier Life Sciences has closed more than $1.1 billion in new capital commitments to its Public Fund, pushing the long-only investment vehicle's total committed capital to roughly $2.8 billion. The Palo Alto-based firm announced the raise Thursday, marking one of the largest…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (920+ words) A 27-year-old AI researcher says he resigned from Anthropic over concerns about how powerful AI is being developed, warning that advanced systems could pose catastrophic risks to humanity. Anthropic said Thursday it has blocked efforts by bad actors to use…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (406+ words) Berkeley-based Rigetti secures a $100 million CHIPS Act award, giving the U.S. government equity as it races to scale superconducting quantum chips....

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (190+ words) That wasn't Lift Partners' first Bay Area repeat customer move, either. In December 2025, the firm closed a $31.8 million sale-leaseback deal for a 120,000-square-foot warehouse at 100 Utah Avenue in South San Francisco, buying it from Goodwill San Francisco Bay after having…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (155+ words) Santa Clara County now has 75 data centers, enough to rank second among all U.S. counties, and its 23% growth rate from 2025 to 2026 was the fastest among the five U.S. counties with the most data centers. The surge comes as the county's median home…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (153+ words) Chime, the San Francisco-based financial technology company known for its no-fee mobile banking app, announced it will acquire nationally chartered Stride Bank in an all-cash deal worth $590 million. Shares of Chime jumped nearly 10% in extended trading following the announcement, adding…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (277+ words) A new program called SHARE will enroll 21,000 home energy devices and deploy subsidized heat pumps across Santa Clara and Alameda counties. Yesterday, PG&E, Rewiring America, and Google announced what they’re calling a “first-of-its-kind” Virtual Power Plant (VPP), called SHARE…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (747+ words) Anyone who drives regularly in the Bay Area knows its persistent traffic choke points, from key stretches of Highway 101 and Interstate 880 to the tangled intersection of Octavia and Market streets in San Francisco. It’s a frustrating, time-wasting problem, and Google…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (457+ words) Chipmaker Nvidia is buying artificial intelligence software platform Hugging Face for $13 billion. It’s the latest deal by the company, whose processors are integral to the AI boom, and highlights Nvidia's push to champion increasingly popular open-source AI models. Nvidia CEO…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (213+ words) Starbuck Charter Bus has expanded its transportation capabilities through a new strategic partnership supporting larger event and shuttle programs across Northern California. San Francisco, California--(Newsfile Corp. - September 2, 2026) - Starbuck Charter Bus has entered a new strategic transportation partnership that expands…...