That AI-run retail store experiment in Cow Hollow may or may not be going well, depending on who you ask. But it's gotten plenty of media attention, and perhaps that is mostly what the company behind it is after. buff.ly/z1BcahT
A man was stabbed Monday night on an alley off Sixth Street in SF's SoMa, and his injuries were said to be life-threatening. buff.ly/ErK6z7J
Kaiser Permanente is preparing to submit plans to the city for the company's first new hospital in San Francisco in over 70 years, and it would replace its existing hospital at Geary and Divisadero. buff.ly/3C3QvXF
Four people, including the driver of a car, were injured Monday afternoon when a Muni bus collided with a car in the Mission District. buff.ly/riOo2ro
Two e-bike riders in SF’s Visitacion Valley were struck and seriously injured Monday when a Daly City police officer crashed into them in a patrol car. buff.ly/dHvWz8L
A FiDi tower once worth $320M just went up for auction and no one bid on it; a fiery Tesla crash caused a backup on 280 Tuesday morning; and Napa residents' property tax checks are being stolen out of the mail in a check-washing scheme. buff.ly/wjDi8sc
BART is running a limited number of trains through the Transbay Tube next Sunday; the CA man shot by ICE in the Central Valley has been ordered to remain in custody; and Trump's labor secretary is stepping down amid scandal. buff.ly/f7frdoD
Apple Inc. will get a new CEO later this year, following the long-expected retirement of Tim Cook, who took over from the late Steve Jobs in 2011. His name is John Ternus, and he is currently Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering. buff.ly/h62WEt6
On Monday, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office announced murder and assault charges against a teenager, who may be tried as an adult, who has been implicated in the April 9 death of his two-year-old cousin. buff.ly/m8ih1vT
Marin County is facing three additional lawsuits in the deaths of four teenagers last April, on top of one already filed, which allege that hazardous road conditions near the site contributed to the crash. buff.ly/g5H068Y
The field of prominent Democrats running to be the next governor of California just shrank once more, one week after the unceremonious exit of former Congressman Eric Swalwell amid sexual assault allegations. buff.ly/KBsjOVC
A group of anonymous activists placed a 120-foot-high banner on Twin Peaks Saturday, in the prominent spot used for the Pink Triangle each June, calling to "End US Aid to Israel." buff.ly/uj8WoED
A 7.5M earthquake struck earlier today off the coast of Japan; Tom Steyer is outspending his Democratic rivals by a lot; and the planned 41-story office/hotel tower at 530 Sansome has taken another step toward breaking ground. buff.ly/VtvEiB4
Cedric Irving, who’s suspected of killing Laney College coach John Beam last year, was ruled incompetent to stand trial. buff.ly/uMgzvaF
El Faro is in trouble again, popular smashburger pop-up Maillards has a new Outer Sunset home, and Eat Americana has closed its doors in the Richmond, all in This Week in Food. buff.ly/pLWjMeE
Frustrated over an unpaid debt and faced with a $1,000 bill to discard a giant pile of junk at the dump, an East Bay dumpster company instead unloaded it back into the nonpaying customer's yard. But the customer who ordered it had already moved. buff.ly/FSNGOOS
Bay Area artist Julie Engelmann completed a new 100-foot mural on the exterior of the Oakland Ice Center honoring Olympic figure skaters, Alysa Liu and Kristi Yamaguchi, who both trained there during their professional careers. buff.ly/Sr0YPdn
Maybe this was a strategic decision on her part, but Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clearly declined to offer an endorsement of Saikat Chakrabarti when asked by a reporter this week about his June primary race. buff.ly/QeK0M1y
After the very long and some would say unnecessary selection, design, public comment, and fabrication process, the first of those fancy new, custom-made rubbish bins have arrived on San Francisco streets, for your trash-tossing pleasure. buff.ly/vJ7dtVS
New data from the Centers for Disease Control finds that Baltimore and San Francisco are, among major cities, home to the highest concentrations of overdose deaths in the last year. buff.ly/CfFg4aH
While 4/20 at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park has been canceled for the past three years due to budget cuts and low sponsorship, a few thousand diehards still show up annually to mark the occasion. buff.ly/QEHoRh9
A driver who was being pursued by San Francisco police Thursday suffered serious injuries after he collided with a Muni bus and had to be extricated from the vehicle using the Jaws of Life. buff.ly/GlBdYaL
After a truly baffling decision by its CEO to demand the removal of Pride flags and other flags from all of its stores, Philz Coffee will go back to allowing the flags, and the CEO has issued an apology to staff and customers. buff.ly/Bpymjrq
Enrollment is down across the board at California schools, both public and private; an at-risk 80-year-old woman is missing in SF; and singer D4vd has been arrested for the murder of his underage girlfriend. buff.ly/HF2e6g8
The swarm of small earthquakes in San Ramon has been causing more underground damage than previously realized; that AI-run boutique in Cow Hollow gets bad reviews; and Utah is seeing a whole lot of measles. buff.ly/36vsKQ7
Imagine a world where your boss says she doesn't have time to meet with you, but she's sending her AI to meet with you instead. That world may not, in fact, be too far in the future. And Meta is already aiming for something just like that. buff.ly/zcxyMMs
The 30-year-old man who allegedly ran into and then ran over an elderly, possibly homeless man in SoMa on Monday has now been charged with murder. buff.ly/MWVBMsA
Friends say they're heartbroken and details remain sketchy following the death last week of a 37-year-old woman in the Ventana Wilderness area of Los Padres National Forest, near Big Sur. buff.ly/YnyPO0p
