After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI | TechCrunch Allbirds is ditching wool sneakers for AI servers, rebranding as NewBird AI after locking in a $50M convertible financing facility.

Ummm, what? techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/a...

24 hours! We'll be back a lot over the next 4 yrs as my son is headed your way for college! We had to visit before committing :).

See u next time Chicago

OB tonight

Yowza

Sunset from Berkeley. Always lovely.

Magnolia trees at ggp :)

Berkeley-to-San Francisco ferry plan takes key step forward San Francisco Bay Ferry could offer service from the Berkeley Marina in three years, if they can find more than $100 million to pay for it.

Love to see more public transit in the BA. Hope it goes thru!

www.berkeleyside.org/2026/01/26/b...

OB tonight after the *fantastic* niner game :)

Netflix acquires gaming avatar maker Ready Player Me | TechCrunch The gaming startup will allow Netflix subscribers to create avatars that can extend across gaming titles.

Is this Netflix's first technology acquisition?

techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/n...

Ahmed el Ahmed, Who Tackled a Bondi Beach Gunman, Was Seriously Injured

Courage.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/w...

A Scientific Pipeline to the Nobel Prize Fueled by Immigrants

A must read:

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...

A buried Nvidia warning could shake the entire AI buildout Investors are watching how cloud providers manage the rising cost of AI infrastructure.

www.miamiherald.com/news/busines...

Ocean beach on Sunday

Also, this is well timed to counter the AI bubble / correction narrative :).

Piloting group chats in ChatGPT Collaborate with others, and ChatGPT, in the same conversation.

Simple, smart - openai.com/index/group-...

"...while testing has begun with human drivers at the wheel at SFO, we don't yet know when users will be able to order rides from San Francisco or any of these other cities to SFO."

Except you can't get to SFO yet. Wonder when that's supposed to roll out.

Taking riders further, safely with freeways The open road symbolizes freedom and unlimited possibility– highlighted especially by the ease and speed by which freeways allow us to get where we’re going. Waymo is now bringing that experience into...

waymo.com/blog/2025/11...

Roelof Botha Steps Aside as Sequoia Capital Names New Leaders Amid The Firm's Cultural Reckoning Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha steps aside, naming Alfred Lin and Pat Grady as new leaders amid the firm’s cultural and leadership reset.

www.forbes.com/sites/sindhy...

Ocean beach run. Hauntingly beautiful.

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

'Like somebody turned a faucet on': Union Square buzz is building in SF "There's just a lot of great momentum and buzz in Union Square right now."

Great to see....due to a combination of the rise of AI in SF more generally, tech companies' return to office policies, and Lurie. Glad to see it all coming together and Lurie might be the right Mayor at the right time.

www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

Israel unveils tax incentives to reverse tech brain drain that increased during the war in Gaza and tax breaks for investors in Israeli funds and tech firms By James Shotter / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

Interesting - www.techmeme.com/251102/p9#a2...

Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads. Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization

This is small, but terrifying - www.wsj.com/business/pal...

What's the argument for these if chips are obsolete w/n 3-5 years. I have some thoughts, but curious what people think.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Meta, xAI Starting Trend for Billions in Off-Balance Sheet Debt Just this month, Meta Platforms Inc. has secured about $60 billion in capital to build data centers, part of its spending to get ahead in the artificial intelligence race. Half of that won’t show up o...

Debt = not great for the health of the AI buildout.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Good evening ocean beach SF

JPMorgan Says US Risks Missing Energy Goals Without Wind, Solar The US will struggle to generate the energy it needs to power growth in its tech industry without including wind and solar, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s global head of sustainable solutions...

Duh....

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

From Muni.