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Chase DiFeliciantonio

Chase DiFeliciantonio

Business Reporter at San Francisco Chronicle

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A Jan. 6 insurrectionist symbol just flew over San Francisco. Here’s what we know - San Francisco...

UPDATE: S.F. removes controversial ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag from Civic Center Plaza. It flew there for decades Passersby in San Francisco’s Jackson Square neighborhood spotted a brazen symbol this week: an “An Appeal to Heaven” flag on a rooftop, resembling the banners carried by Jan. 6 rioters and the one flown at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s beach house. The flag, bearing a green pine tree against a white background, sat atop the Canessa Printing Co. building at 708 and 710 Montgomery S…
5 months ago
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Scarlett Johansson ‘shocked, angered’ by OpenAI bot that sounds lik...

San Francisco artificial intelligence startup OpenAI is pulling one of the personas used for the spoken version of its ChatGPT chatbot after users pointed out that the option named Sky bore a striking resemblance to the voice of actress Scarlett Johansson. The company denied it was Johansson’s voice in a blog post. But in a statement distributed Monday afternoon, the actress said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had repeatedly tried to hire her to provide the bot’s voice and had released the Sky voice even…
5 months ago
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‘AI is coming for democracy,’ tech and government leaders caution a...

Imagine instead of five or six ballot initiatives each year there were 500 or 600. Or perhaps we might have chatbots pushing out political propaganda, or even laws written by and enforced by computer programs. That was a possible and not-too-distant future outlined by Bruce Schneier, a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, during the RSA Conference at San Francisco’s Moscone Center this week. The four-day, digital security-focused event also attracted U.S. Secretary of State Anto…
6 months ago
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San Francisco nightclub known for techie romps and big-name stars t...

Temple Nightclub, a downtown San Francisco dance spot that hosted techie romps and big-name stars for more than a decade, will shut its doors for good next month. Opened in 2007 at the space formerly occupied by Club DV8, the longtime South of Market institution has struggled financially in recent months, according to a notice filed with the state. “For the last several months Temple Nightclub has experienced financial difficulties due to economic changes within our industry,” the club’s managem…
7 months ago
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Tech backlash builds to proposed California bill giving workers the...

A new bill from San Francisco Assembly Member Matt Haney would clearly outline when companies can communicate with their employees during off hours, following other countries that have passed so-called “right to disconnect” laws. The bill would require companies to lay out the expected working hours in employment contracts ahead of time. It would also give state labor authorities the power to investigate and fine companies that show a pattern of barging in on their employees’ personal time. “Wor…
7 months ago
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How well do AI jobs pay in San Francisco? The answer may surprise y...

Eye-popping pay packages at some San Francisco AI companies beg the question: Does working in the city’s latest boom industry pay better than good old-fashioned tech work? The answer is it does. Sometimes. Sprinkling some artificial intelligence fairy dust on a tech role does tend to make it more lucrative. But how much varies a lot by the job title, according to national and local data from job site ZipRecruiter shared with the Chronicle. “We did find the AI versions of (tech) jobs consistently…
8 months ago
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Could OpenAI save journalism? Bay Area news outlets using their mon...

AI will destroy journalism. AI will bring journalism into a new era. In truth, it may do a bit of both. When the New York Times sued OpenAI instead of accepting a check to license its archives to train future versions of ChatGPT, it was a different tactic than other companies had taken. After all, publishers including the Associated Press and Politico owner Axel Springer had struck licensing deals with the company without much fuss. The New York Times sued OpenAI and its largest investor, Micros…
8 months ago
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Beethoven meets AI as music enters a new technological moment - San...

Hip-hop pioneer Nate Dogg once summarized his connection to his art with a four-word motto: “My music and me.” That simple phrase underscores the deep relationship between songwriters and their creations — a process so personal there seemed little role for machines to play other than as electronic instruments producing new sounds or software helping with the grunt work of composition. That was before artificial intelligence. AI is already changing how musicians compose and play music in ways har…
8 months ago
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‘Where is my son?’ Scammers using AI put Bay Area family through te...

Amy Trapp was in her office at the Mill Valley school where she works when she got a call from an unknown number. She picked it up, thinking it might have something to do with the school fire drill from earlier in the day. Instead, a familiar voice — one she knew better than any other — was on the line. “It was my son’s voice on the phone crying, telling me ‘Mom, mom, I’ve been in a car accident!’ ’’ Trapp said. Instantly, she felt rising panic. Images of her son Will, away at college on Califor…
10 months ago
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S.F. State faculty strike Tuesday over demand for salary increase -...

A large crowd of faculty members at San Francisco State University joined picket lines on Tuesday morning in a strike over salary demands as some classes were canceled and dozens of students demonstrated alongside in support. Picketers dressed in union red — and one in an alligator onesie, in honor of the school’s mascot — marched with signs in hand at the entrance to the campus at 19th and Holloway avenues. They rattled noisemakers and blew vuvuzelas at the passing cars, many of whom honked the…
11 months ago
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S.F. street chess could make a comeback in this corner of downtown ...

Chess has saved downtown. Well, not all of it. But for an hour on Thursday afternoon the Mechanics Monument Plaza at Market and Battery streets felt like a scene out of an architectural drawing, with passersby lounging in sling back chairs as chess players hunched over boards beneath the looming bronze statue that gives the triangular plaza its name. The lunch-hour chess program is a collaboration between the nonprofit Downtown San Francisco Partnership and the nearby Mechanics’ Institute chess…
about 1 year ago