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Swan Oyster Depot opened on Polk Street in 1903 and has run more or less continuously since, pausing only to rebuild after the 1906 earthquake. It is barely a restaurant - a marble counter with about eighteen stools, no tables, no kitchen to speak of - and has been run by the same family for generations, serving the same short list of cold shellfish.

A magnitude 7.9 rupture of the San Andreas Fault shook Northern California at 5:12 a.m. local time, and the fires that followed burned for days. More than 3,000 died and over 80% of the city was destroyed.

San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, a mile-long suspension span across a notoriously treacherous strait, opened to the public with a Pedestrian Day that drew roughly 200,000 walkers.

San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid welcomed its first tenant after overcoming years of public opposition to its unconventional tapered design.

DirectX, OpenGL May Soon Allow Low-Level Hardware Access

New Start screen introduced in Windows Phone 8.1. Youíll be able to have your image on the Start screen, but itíll show through the various Live tiles that can be set to transparent. It also animates really nicely thanks to a parallax effect.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, also known as Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, is a 2015 American epic space opera film produced, co-written, and directed by J. The sequel to Return of the Jedi (1983), it is the first installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy and chronologically the seventh film of the "Skywalker Saga".

Star Wars: The Last Jedi, also known as Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, or simply The Last Jedi, is a 2017 American epic space opera film written and directed by Rian Johnson. Produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the second installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, following The Force Awakens (2015), and the eighth episode of the nine-part "Skywalker saga".

Salesforce's first employees moved into San Francisco's new 1,070-foot Salesforce Tower, the anchor of the Transbay district and the city's tallest skyscraper.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, also known as Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, is a 2019 American epic space opera film produced, co-written, and directed by J. Produced by Lucasfilm and Bad Robot, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the third and final installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, following The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017), and the last episo

Engineers completed a $100M underpinning project meant to arrest the sinking and tilt of San Francisco's Millennium Tower.

The district that runs the Golden Gate Bridge signed off on roughly $1 billion in funding for the final stage of a decades-long project to keep the span standing through a major earthquake.

A small Filipino tasting-menu restaurant on Nob Hill, with chef Patrick Gabon in an open kitchen and Celine Wuu running wine and the room.

A two-judge Ninth Circuit panel turned down an emergency appeal by the Environmental Defense Center and Center for Biological Diversity seeking to block the federal restart permit granted to Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, sending the company's stock surging. The terse December 31 order is not the end: the court put the case on an expedited schedule, with its first deadline on January 26.

Visa is eliminating about 2,600 roles, roughly 7% of its workforce and mostly in technology and product, with CEO Ryan McInerney saying AI is reshaping how work gets done.

Johnson & Johnson closed its $1 billion cash purchase of Firefly Bio, the South San Francisco biotech behind the Firelink degrader antibody conjugate platform for KRAS-driven and other hard-to-treat solid tumours.

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 - the same model behind different safeguards - and cuts cache reads by 75%, making typical workloads about 25% cheaper to run than Fable 5.

Uber cut about 10% of its staff, roughly 3,300 jobs, as CEO Dara Khosrowshahi removed management layers, merged teams and pulled remote workers back into offices.

OpenAI stopped new sign-ups and upgrades to its $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro 20X plan, where its new Astra model is available, while it adds compute. Existing Pro accounts are unaffected.

Anthropic confirmed it operates a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where its models can run physical experiments, its head of life sciences Eric Kauderer-Abrams saying the company is doing real lab work today. Anthropic says the facility's focus is fundamental biology rather than drug discovery, where it partners with pharma customers including Novo Nordisk.

Prediction-market traders expected Anthropic to ship the successor to Claude Opus 5 (released July 24, 2026) within days. On 19 September 2026 Polymarket's per-day market made September 21 the single likeliest day at 31%, ahead of September 22 at 25%, and its deadline market gave a release by September 30 an 83% chance and by October 31 98%. Anthropic had not announced the model; the “Opus 5.1” name comes from leaked early-access identifiers and early tester reports.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in a new Claude 5.5 family, which it says matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most work while costing 40% less to run than Opus 5.

OpenAI switches off 6 models and endpoints on 24 September 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: Videos API, sora-2, sora-2-pro, sora-2-2025-10-06, sora-2-2025-12-08, sora-2-pro-2025-10-06.

OpenAI switches off 4 models and endpoints on 28 September 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, babbage-002, davinci-002, gpt-3.5-turbo-1106.

OpenAI switches off GPT-5.4-Cyber on 1 October 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-5.4-cyber.

Satya Nadella, Pavan Davuluri and NVIDIA's Jensen Huang take the stage in San Francisco at 10 AM PT for Microsoft's first major Windows event in more than two years, billed as a conversation on "how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC." Pricing and availability for the RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra are expected.

OpenAI switches off 17 models and endpoints on 23 October 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-3.5-turbo-0125, gpt-4-0613, gpt-4-1106-preview, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-2024-05-13, gpt-image-1, o1-2024-12-17, o1-pro-2025-03-19, o3-mini-2025-01-31, ft-o4-mini-2025-04-16, o4-mini-2025-04-16 and 5 more.

Microsoft's flagship conference for IT pros, developers, security and business leaders runs 17-20 November 2026 at San Francisco's Moscone Center and online, with Satya Nadella leading the featured speakers.

On 20 September 2026 Kalshi’s Anthropic IPO ladder went from a 9% chance of an announcement before November 1 to 50% before December 1, putting 41 points of probability on November 2026 alone — by far the single likeliest month. By April 2027 the market had the announcement at 91%.

OpenAI switches off Evals platform on 30 November 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements.

OpenAI switches off Reusable prompts on 30 November 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements.

OpenAI switches off Agent Builder on 30 November 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements.

OpenAI switches off 3 models and endpoints on 1 December 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5, chatgpt-image-latest.

OpenAI switches off 6 models and endpoints on 11 December 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-5-2025-08-07, gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07, gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07, gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06, o3-2025-04-16, o3-pro-2025-06-10.

OpenAI switches off 9 models and endpoints on 20 January 2027; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-realtime, gpt-audio, gpt-4o-audio, gpt-4o-realtime, gpt-realtime-mini, gpt-audio-mini, gpt-4o-mini-realtime, gpt-4o-mini-audio, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20.

OpenAI switches off 4 models and endpoints on 26 February 2027; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize.

On 20 September 2026 Kalshi put an official OpenAI IPO announcement at 5% before January 2027, 12% before February and 39% before March — a 27-point jump across February. The upper rungs did not run in order: the page showed 70% before April, then 49% before May and 61% before June.

Twelve state attorneys general led by California's Rob Bonta, and separately the Writers Guild of America, get their day in court against Paramount Skydance's $111bn acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin set 12 court days, and the merger is on hold behind the result.

Star Wars: Starfighter is an upcoming American space opera film directed by Shawn Levy and written by Jonathan Tropper. Produced by Lucasfilm and 21 Laps Entertainment, and set to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is intended to be an installment in the Star Wars franchise and set five years after the events of the film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).

Turner broke ground on 5 September 2024 on the $2.6 billion modernization of SFO's Terminal 3: a 200,000-square-foot expansion, 650,000 square feet of renovation and a new six-story building holding airline lounges and operational offices. The eastern addition follows in 2029.

The 15-floor, 880,000-square-foot hospital on Parnassus Avenue adds 324 beds and replaces seismically obsolete buildings at the heart of UCSF's oldest campus, at a reported cost of $4.3 billion. Twenty site and twelve hospital 'make ready' projects run from February 2022 through April 2027 to clear the way for it.

The Portal takes Caltrain, and later California High-Speed Rail, underground from Fourth and King into the train box already built beneath the Salesforce Transit Center, with a new underground station at Fourth and Townsend. TJPA's July 2025 indicative estimate put the capital cost at about $7.57 billion, of which the federal government has pledged $3.38 billion.