Amazon closes S.F. AI lab, lays off 1,100 Florida warehouse workers

The e-commerce giant closed its San Francisco lab, which had been seeking to achieve artificial general intelligence. The ...

Amazon confirms it’s closing key AI site in San Francisco but says work on its top models continues

Amazon is closing its San Francisco AGI site as part of the layoffs it made this week in its artificial general intelligence ...
Commercial Observer

R1 Picks San Francisco’s 140 New Montgomery as New HQ for AI Lab

Tony Bennett once crooned about leaving his heart in San Francisco and — some 63 years later — R1 has decided to make the city the heart of its artificial intelligence lab’s operations. R1 — a ...

Q/C Technologies Relocates Headquarters to San Francisco in Proximity to World-Class Engineering Experts for Photonic Computing and Optical AI Inference Initiative

Builds integrated photonics lab to ramp research and development for proprietary optical processing unitSan Francisco, June 30, 2026 (GLOBE ...
TechCrunch

Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix

Sixteen years ago, engineers working on the Google self-driving project conducted their first autonomous vehicle tests on the freeway that connects Silicon Valley to San Francisco. The company would ...
The New York Times

In San Francisco, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough

As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite. Some doubt they can afford to stay. As OpenAI and Anthropic ...