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This Month's Latest Tech News in San Francisco, CA - Sunday August 31st 2025 Edition

Too Long; Didn't Read: San Francisco's AI surge: local VC funding hit ≈ $29B (H1 2025) amid $104.3B U.S. AI investment; Salesforce bought Informatica for $8B; Bay Area leased >5M sq ft to AI firms; California mandates AI transparency (AB 2013) and t... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Reservoir Farms opened an on‑farm agtech incubator in Salinas hosting six startups with John Deere integrations and testing acres; Caltrans approved a $1.2M adaptive AI traffic pilot on SR‑68; Monterey County ag value rose 14.... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Diablo Canyon deployed Atomic Canyon's Neutron on eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs to cut ~15,000 annual manual search hours; Berkeley Lab's Doudna supercomputer (2026) will serve ~11,000 scientists; Bay Area lost ~11,000 tech jobs YTD;... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Fresno's AI fallout: a ChatGPT‑generated dossier led to spokesperson Nikki Henry's resignation and a $162,000 severance, prompting new hires (CIO Adela Garcia Duncan, deputy superintendent Ben Amuku Drati), promised staff AI t... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Fremont's tech surge: groundbreaking for a 473,250 sq. ft., six‑building Campus at Bayside (Phase 1 ~250,000 sq. ft., Q2 2026), ~4,000 amps @480V per building, projected 1,100–1,500+ jobs; Neuralink $600M funding; SF metro AI ... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Berkeley tech roundup (Aug 31, 2025): Doudna supercomputer (Dell + NVIDIA) promises ≥10× scientific output for ~11,000 researchers by late 2026; NSF renews $20M for IFML (5 years); brain-to-voice BCI hits ~47.5–90.9 wpm; Code ... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Hemet faces a federal AI push that fast‑tracks qualifying data centers (thresholds: >100 MW or >$500M) promising jobs and investment but risking local grid, water, and CEQA strain. Key data: OpenAI $40B round, Otter suit (25M ... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Menifee tech roundup (Aug 31, 2025): city approves AI smart‑infrastructure pilot; PV Circonomy recovers 99.3% of solar materials; data‑center financings rising to ~$60B (2025); EV Fast Charge grants $55M open through Oct.29; A... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Meta began using EU public Facebook/Instagram posts for AI training on May 27, 2025 (opt-out available); Gallup found 7% support in Germany. Meta plans $60–72B AI capex in 2025. Locals: review privacy settings, submit objectio... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Chula Vista tech roundup (Aug 31, 2025): California's SB 243 targets companion‑chatbot harms with audits, suicide‑response rules and possible private suits; Southwestern College flags ~1,600 bot enrollments amid $11M+ statewid... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Irvine's AI surge: FieldAI raised $405M at a $2B valuation; UC Irvine offers up to $100K in Fall Proof of Product (LOIs due Sept. 15); SAP gave $2M to expand AI curriculum. Teens' AI use ~45% (7% daily); CA ADMT rules effectiv... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: California announces MOUs with Google, Microsoft, Adobe and IBM to bring AI tools and training to 116 community colleges serving ~2.1M students; CSUB hosts free NextTech Kern Oct 2; Nvidia Q1: $44.1B revenue ($39.1B Data Cente... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Fairfield tech roundup (Aug 31, 2025): courts adopt AI rules by Sept 1; MIT study finds ~83% of students can't recall AI‑written work; Alphabet Q2 revenue $96.4B, Cloud $13.6B; Waste Energy system ~80% built, 10,950 tons/year ... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: CoreWeave plans a $6B, 100–300 MW AI data‑center campus at 216 Greenfield Road (78 acres) with $4B JV funding and ~$200M for grid upgrades. Phase 1 begins Aug 2025 (complete Summer 2027), ~600–1,000 construction jobs and ~150 ... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Monarch Tractor's MK‑V scales autonomous electric viticulture (eligible for up to $68,750 CORE vouchers); Advent rehired Dr. Ryan Pavlicek to commercialize Ion Pair HT‑PEM; LLNL's 2.4 MJ ignition and MADA speed fusion design; ... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Escondido residents rallied Aug 23 against Palantir over privacy after reports of a $30M April ICE contract and $113M+ federal payments; meanwhile regional AI hiring, a $10B Army deal, and renewed office leasing signal local j... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: California accelerates GenAI pilots and K–16 training for 2+ million students, Archistar's eCheck speeds wildfire rebuilds after 16,000+ structures lost, Hayden AI bus cameras generated ~10,000 citations in two months, CPPA tr... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Carlsbad's tech roundup: GigaIO reports 2× training speed, 83.5× faster token time, 35–40% power savings; $21M Series B tranche. MaxLinear ships 1.6T Rushmore DSP. Viasat wins $100M EST Phase 2; Sleep.ai raises $5.5M; optics m... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Dallas' AI boom: NVIDIA plans 1M+ sq ft Texas AI manufacturing with mass production in 12–15 months; Caris raised ~$494M via IPO (23,529,412 shares at $21); Collin County could hit $360B GDP by 2050; Cognigy sold for ~$955M; w... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: College Station's tech roundup (Aug 31, 2025): Texas A&M launches a five‑course online AI & Business minor (Fall 2025 pilot, ~200 seats/section); Cassie AI receptionist pilots in clinics; Restb.ai adds ~1,800 MLS users; Nvidia... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Killeen's tech pulse (Aug 31, 2025): Centex hires John Sharp (July 25) to boost cybersecurity/AI; new generative‑AI training programs (8–15 week tracks); KISD approves $35.3M renovation, 3% raises; Goodwill opens new center; $... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Amarillo's HyperGrid plans ~18M sq ft and up to 11 GW AI capacity, targeting 1 GW on‑site by 2026 with 600+ MW gas now and four AP1000 reactors proposed; CoreWeave/Helios commits 800 MW (first power early 2026), while TTU ramp... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Fort Worth's AI surge: Wistron's $761M renovation (1.1M sq ft) will create 800+ jobs by early 2026; Lambda and Aligned plan a $700M Plano AI data center; UTA launched a $2.1M supercomputing hub; FiberLight and Cognigy expand H... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Austin's AI boom: $20M NSF IFML renewal, $2.3M Snowfire pre‑seed, Nvidia's on‑shore build up to $500B, Samsung–Tesla $16.5B chip deal, 121 local AI companies with ~$592M funding, and council/legislative moves on AI oversight a... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Laredo tech roundup (Aug 31, 2025): DHS warns multimodal deepfakes amid $200M+ thefts; InvestigateTV demos teach spotting tactics; Run on Less tests mixed-powertrain fleets with Albert Transport; Laredo ranks 98/99 for interne... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Houston becomes a U.S. AI manufacturing hub as NVIDIA/Foxconn commission >1,000,000 sq ft in Texas/Arizona, targeting mass production in 12–15 months and up to $500B AI infrastructure; Rice opens a 10,000 sq ft AI accelerator;... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: McAllen's AI surge: MXLAN summit drives real use cases - predictive maintenance, generative emergency medicine - while UTRGV wins $2.8M NSF ARISE grant, Ciudad Juarez lost ~64,000 manufacturing jobs (Jun 2023–Jun 2025), FiberL... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Brownsville's AI surge includes Alpha School's AI‑driven K–8 pilot (reported ~2× learning velocity after nine months, ~$10K pilot tuition), STARBASE city vote (212–6), Texas HB149 effective Jan 1, 2026 with 36‑month sandbox, a... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: UTEP launched AI‑ICER (≈30 faculty) to focus on water security and Hispanic health; bilingual AI kiosks logged 1,000+ users (20% Spanish); Texas passed TRAIGA (effective Jan 1, 2026); Project Jupiter proposes $165B data‑center... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: League City earned U.S. News “Best Places” (2025–26) amid record 40,112 active listings and ~6.6% 30‑yr rates; nearby Starbase incorporated (Yes 212–6, ~1.5–1.6 sq mi, ~500 residents) as launches may rise from ~5 to 25/year, s... Read more

Too Long; Didn't Read: Fermi America's HyperGrid near Amarillo plans ~18M sq ft and up to 11 GW IT capacity, backed by $100M Series C and $250M loan; targets 1 GW by 2026, four AP1000 reactors (~4,400 MWe) by early‑2030s. Watch water, NRC COLA (file... Read more