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Even after 4 years, San Francisco just can’t stop fighting over a 2-mile stretch of road. On Election Day, San Franciscans will again decide the fate of the Great Highway.
📝: @leahygarrett sfstandard.com/2026/10/22/gr…
From Potrero Hill to Alamo Square, see where San Francisco’s newest luxury real estate records are being broken.
📝: Emily Landes sfstandard.com/2026/10/25/ne…
After an almost-perfect start to this season, how can Kyle Shanahan’s team make the most of this time off and come back stronger for the stretch run?
📝: @timkawakami sfstandard.com/2026/10/25/sa…
The San Francisco AI giant’s filing warns of everything from potentially conscious chatbots to spies and threats to humanity.
📝: @RachylJones sfstandard.com/2026/10/26/an…
Game 6 of the WNBA Finals starts Thursday at 9:30 a.m. PT in Atlanta.
📝: @KO_Crowley sfstandard.com/2026/10/26/go…
The San Francisco Standard retweeted
Hidden in 300 pages of Anthropic's S-1 were these 2 statements addressing model "welfare." In AI speak, that's the belief that AI models could develop consciousness or even feel pain, which could require them to be treated differently. I dug in here sfstandard.com/2026/10/26/an…
Kyle Shanahan’s team is normally disciplined. In Atlanta, penalties cost the 49ers an opportunity to improve to 7-0.
📝: @KO_Crowley sfstandard.com/2026/10/26/49…
In queer spaces, unwanted touching is too often waved off as something that’s part of the culture rather than a violation of it.
Join The San Francisco Standard and SF LGBT Center on Oct. 28 for a live conversation with advocates and nightlife leaders about consent, accountability, and what it will take to change how queer communities respond to sexual assault.
Free with RSVP: sf.news/4zY63tq
This week in "Power Play:" The city unions holding out for pricier contracts, Newsom’s silence on the race for Nancy Pelosi’s seat, and Manny Yekutiel’s campaign debt.
📝: @dustingardiner, @MaggieAngst, @FitzTheReporter, and @ggreschler sfstandard.com/2026/10/25/po…
After losing to the Falcons four years ago, the 49ers traded for Christian McCaffrey and advanced to the NFC Championship Game.
📝: @LombardiHimself sfstandard.com/2026/10/25/49…
The Hoover Institution’s Ben Jaros defends a paper finding California’s billionaire tax would lose $39 billion.
📝: @kevinbtruong sfstandard.com/2026/10/26/ho…
Proposition 45 could speed up environmental reviews for housing and much more. Usual allies are split over whether that’s worth the trade.
📝: @KevinNguyen_89 sfstandard.com/2026/10/26/ca…
A person who was stabbed early Monday on a Muni bus in the Western Addition was in serious condition at a hospital as police searched for a suspect. The suspect had fled the bus before SFPD officers arrived around 1:13 a.m.
Police searched the area but did not find the attacker. The unidentified victim was taken to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and injuries are reported to be non-life-threatening. Read more: sf.news/4kfmblt
SFMTA says violence on transit is ‘deeply concerning’ as police search for suspect of a stabbing on a Muni 5 bus early Monday morning.
📝: @allaboutgeorge sfstandard.com/2026/10/26/mu…
Reporter Carole Cadwalladr, who helped break Facebook’s biggest scandal, hopes the New Mexico ruling stops Silicon Valley from rewriting history.
📝: @heatherkelly sfstandard.com/2026/10/26/me…
No team has won a title without a first- or second-team All-WNBA player. Golden State is two wins away from doing it.
📝: @janekennyy sfstandard.com/2026/10/26/go…
The upper echelons of luxury homebuyers are actually giving a nice little boost to the city’s budget because of how SF taxes building purchases.
📝: @jillianiles sfstandard.com/2026/10/26/sf…
Despite opposition to Prop. 40 from Gavin Newsom and several major labor groups, teachers in San Francisco and Los Angeles are among the local groups backing the tax.
📝: @dustingardiner sfstandard.com/2026/10/26/ca…
A bar that opened last year has become the main gathering spot for Valkyries fans who want to watch their team on the road.
📝: Heather Diehl sfstandard.com/2026/10/21/ri…
