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(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie dropped off his ballot at City Hall on Tuesday morning. Speaking with reporters, he encouraged eligible voters to turn out if they hadn’t already, and shouted out his legislation — Proposition D, E and F, as well as efforts to fund affordable housing and regional and local transit. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I am committed to making sure we make this city more affordable, and we do that by investing in transit and housing,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Passion at the polls remained high\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leading up to the midterms, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915782/bracing-for-the-coming-wave-of-legal-challenges-to-midterm-voting\">questions\u003c/a> around election security and voter data took center stage, especially after Trump escalated efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107730/dozens-of-californians-face-voter-fraud-charges-but-proving-the-violations-may-be-difficult\">prove\u003c/a> rampant election fraud. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim Fonesca, a San José voter, said that the whole situation was “scary” and “wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I don’t think we should be making life harder for immigrants, for people moving here, contributing to society, wanting to participate in whatever way they can,” Fonesca said. “If it’s illegal for someone to vote, they shouldn’t be doing it, but I don’t think we should be making it more difficult for people living and working here.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kathleen Caldito, a 33-year-old voter in Hayward, said that while she was worried about election interference, she was proud to see the turnout at the polls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s amazing to see how much the community cares,” she said. “Growing up in Hayward my whole life, polls were never like this. Like, it wasn’t stacked.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Hey, our community’s out here,” Caldito continued. “We’re fighting for the right things, and just to hear our voice, because I think a lot of people, growing up in this community, people always felt like their vote never mattered.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-11-BL-KQED-eba9012f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107904\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-11-BL-KQED-eba9012f.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-11-BL-KQED-eba9012f-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-11-BL-KQED-eba9012f-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Voters fill out their ballots at the City Hall Voting Center in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2026. 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There’s many people that would love the right to vote, and we need to vote for everybody,” Sahagun said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up in Humboldt County, Natalie Parchman said that she headed to the polls early so that she could wear her sticker all day. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It actually does remind people to vote,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s Emily Tenorio Molina, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a>, Jose Velazquez and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slewis\">Sukey Lewis\u003c/a> contributed to this report. Stanford University graduate journalism students Katherine Beard and Elizabeth Brewer also contributed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite some bad weather, Bay Area voters braved the rain to make their voices heard — weighing in on everything from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915682/californias-billionaire-tax-and-the-efforts-to-nullify-it\">tax on billionaires\u003c/a> to the fate of local and regional \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/regional-measure-rtm\">public transportation\u003c/a> and more in the final years of Donald Trump’s presidency.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many were eager to cast their vote and get a word in on a swath of local and state issues. Some even showed up for the first time. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hayes Valley resident Marilyn Ruvalcaba Morales, who voted at City Hall, said she became a citizen this year. She brought her husband and her daughter’s ballots with her to the drop box. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-24-BL-KQED-5e42b82f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107906\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-24-BL-KQED-5e42b82f.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-24-BL-KQED-5e42b82f-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-24-BL-KQED-5e42b82f-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Voters drop off ballots at the City Hall Voting Center in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I do want changes,” she said. “It’s really discouraging how our democracy is being very threatened by the current politics and the representatives right now,” Morales said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across the Bay, Alameda County’s Registrar of Voters Cynthia Cornejo welcomed voters out of the rain. As of Monday night, voter turnout was a little over 30%, and that there was strong morning traffic, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We’ve had rain before on Election Day, especially in November, and voters turn out regardless,” Cornejo said. “We’re happy to see it.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Confusing ballot language\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frustration with opaque ballot measures united voters across the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mary Jinn, a voter in Humboldt County’s McKinleyville, said that she cared about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12101928/prop-39-require-identification-when-californians-cast-a-ballot\">Proposition 39\u003c/a>, a proposal that would require voters to show ID at the polls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There was so much of that talk of Trump, wanting to block votes of people, but I do think we need to prove ID,” Jinn said, adding that she did her research before coming to the polls so that she would not have to rely on the ballot measures alone. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I don’t like the way they word things. It’s confusing. You don’t know if a yes means what you want it to mean or not,” Jinn said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside Hayward City Hall on Tuesday, Xaya Johnson echoed that confusion — particularly around Proposition 40 and two counter-measures that would nullify it if either passes with more votes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“That’s always my goal at first, is just see what the general vibe is, and then, like, what is this, legal wordage?” said Johnson, 32. “How do I understand exactly what I’m voting for right now?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daniel Segura, a 35-year-old Oakland resident who works in tech, had a similar complaint. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There were a lot of trick questions or hidden agendas within the components of the different measures,” Segura said. “I wish that could change in the future.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Segura also said he struggled to find information for the judges who were up for election. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It was very difficult to vote,” Segura said. “You want to have someone that has moral character … these people make decisions on outcomes that affect the community.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">California voters consider taxing billionaires\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California voters are deciding whether to pass a first-of-its-kind tax on the state’s roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915264/economists-make-the-case-for-and-against-californias-billionaire-tax\">250\u003c/a> billionaires.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Junior Mejía, a healthcare worker in Oakland, said that the one-time tax was one of the main issues that brought him out to the polls. Mejía said that the ads opposing the billionaire tax actually convinced him to vote in favor of it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It makes you wonder, why are they spending so much money?” Mejía said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-02-BL-KQED-867fad95.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-02-BL-KQED-867fad95.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-02-BL-KQED-867fad95-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-02-BL-KQED-867fad95-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A voter drops off their ballot at the Hoogasian Flowers polling place in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voting in San Francisco, Dyana Bohrques said billionaires “should be fairly taxed like everyone else. They’re making exorbitant amounts that so many will never see and could help so many people, and it would literally be like a penny drop in what they’re making.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew Schell, of coastal city Arcata in Northern California, said he typically goes to the left on most issues — but voted against the billionaire tax. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I just don’t want their money to leave,” he said. “I figured there’d be a brain drain and a money drain, and I think it’s going to scare a lot of billionaires away.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Local politics drive turnout \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Others were laser-focused on local races. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garrett Fitzpatrick, a 29-year-old IT consultant in Oakland, said he voted on his lunch break, with an eye on the District 2 City Council race — the “big one” for him because it “was going to be the one that has the biggest impact on my situation,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He ended up voting for Nate Adams, a candidate who shared his ideas about government, and who he hopes would bring about “safer streets, cheaper rents and a stronger sense of community.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ElectionDay-28-BL_qed-5b669a2c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107922\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ElectionDay-28-BL_qed-5b669a2c.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ElectionDay-28-BL_qed-5b669a2c-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ElectionDay-28-BL_qed-5b669a2c-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mayor Daniel Lurie drops off his ballot outside of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie dropped off his ballot at City Hall on Tuesday morning. Speaking with reporters, he encouraged eligible voters to turn out if they hadn’t already, and shouted out his legislation — Proposition D, E and F, as well as efforts to fund affordable housing and regional and local transit. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I am committed to making sure we make this city more affordable, and we do that by investing in transit and housing,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Passion at the polls remained high\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leading up to the midterms, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915782/bracing-for-the-coming-wave-of-legal-challenges-to-midterm-voting\">questions\u003c/a> around election security and voter data took center stage, especially after Trump escalated efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107730/dozens-of-californians-face-voter-fraud-charges-but-proving-the-violations-may-be-difficult\">prove\u003c/a> rampant election fraud. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim Fonesca, a San José voter, said that the whole situation was “scary” and “wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I don’t think we should be making life harder for immigrants, for people moving here, contributing to society, wanting to participate in whatever way they can,” Fonesca said. “If it’s illegal for someone to vote, they shouldn’t be doing it, but I don’t think we should be making it more difficult for people living and working here.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kathleen Caldito, a 33-year-old voter in Hayward, said that while she was worried about election interference, she was proud to see the turnout at the polls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s amazing to see how much the community cares,” she said. “Growing up in Hayward my whole life, polls were never like this. Like, it wasn’t stacked.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Hey, our community’s out here,” Caldito continued. “We’re fighting for the right things, and just to hear our voice, because I think a lot of people, growing up in this community, people always felt like their vote never mattered.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-11-BL-KQED-eba9012f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107904\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-11-BL-KQED-eba9012f.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-11-BL-KQED-eba9012f-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-ELECTIONDAY-11-BL-KQED-eba9012f-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Voters fill out their ballots at the City Hall Voting Center in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">San Francisco resident Karla Sahagun said she urged her neighbors to get out and vote. She was out there, she said, in spite of recently running a half-marathon and having a cold. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Vote. There’s many people that would love the right to vote, and we need to vote for everybody,” Sahagun said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up in Humboldt County, Natalie Parchman said that she headed to the polls early so that she could wear her sticker all day. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It actually does remind people to vote,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s Emily Tenorio Molina, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a>, Jose Velazquez and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slewis\">Sukey Lewis\u003c/a> contributed to this report. Stanford University graduate journalism students Katherine Beard and Elizabeth Brewer also contributed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Instead, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents detained the 23-year-old Colombian asylum seeker before she could board the plane, her lawyer, Nikolas De Bremaeker, said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE then transported Albornoz Hernandez to ICE’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-city\">California City Detention Facility\u003c/a>, a remote center in the Mojave Desert that De Bremaeker called “an atrocious place where no human being should be sent.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070623\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A guard walks to the entrance of an immigration detention center during a visit by California Democrats Sen. Adam Schiff and Sen. Alex Padilla, on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albornoz Hernandez entered the country in 2022 and applied for asylum for gender-based violence “well before” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-and-asylum/asylum/the-affirmative-asylum-process\">one-year\u003c/a> deadline, said De Bremaeker. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attorney told KQED that the arrest was illegal and that he filed a habeas petition — a federal petition used to argue that someone is being held without legal basis or being held under unacceptable conditions — on Monday. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“She has built up so many ties,” De Bremaeker said. “The government can’t just step in and say ‘Oh, I’ve changed my mind, I’m going to detain them now.’ Our Constitution prevents that.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Bremaeker said Albornoz Hernandez is a student in U.C. 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(Courtesy of Nikolas De Bremaeker)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“She’s missing her classes and her exams,” De Bramaeker said. “I know she’s stressing out about it right now.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said in an email that Albornoz Hernandez “will receive due process and remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.C. 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And speculation has already begun about the impact this kind of cash could have on the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In July, \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/news/openai-anthropic-housing-wealth/\">Redfin\u003c/a> estimated that the current and former employees of Anthropic — and fellow AI company OpenAI, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/09/12/nx-s1-5950588/openai-anthropic-ai-safety-researchers-hacks\">delayed\u003c/a> its own IPO to 2027 — could hypothetically make enough from their respective IPOs to buy up a third of the total homes in San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"857\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1adc92e1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107213\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1adc92e1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1adc92e1-160x69.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1adc92e1-1536x658.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A row of homes on Capp Street, between 22nd and 23rd Streets, in San Francisco’s Mission District. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But economists are skeptical the offering will bring widespread change. Ted Egan, the city of San Francisco’s chief economist, said that the impact of Anthropic’s IPO on San Francisco’s budget will be “modest” at best. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“While it could potentially be a lot of money, I’m not sure it will be particularly noticeable to everybody in the city,” Egan said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here’s what we know about how the coming Anthropic IPO could affect you in the Bay Area. Spoiler: Many of its impacts on those of us in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html\">“permanent underclass”\u003c/a> are already here. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Housing prices could keep rising\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Who will be most affected: Anyone trying to buy a house, afford rent, or move in San Francisco. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">Real estate and rental prices\u003c/a> increased \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12095536/after-the-18000-scam-how-can-bay-area-renters-protect-themselves\">dramatically\u003c/a> over the summer, thanks to a booming AI economy. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Redfin’s latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/cost-of-living-calculator/san-francisco-ca\">data\u003c/a> shows that the average price to buy a home in San Francisco is about $1.7 million dollars and the average rental is about $4,000 — 161% more than the national average.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With prices already high, news of Anthropic’s IPO sparked \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1whm8cg/future_of_sf_housing/\">fear\u003c/a> in both renters and buyers — with one \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1xfzic9/anthropic_files_for_ipo_setting_the_stage_for_a/\">Reddit\u003c/a> user harkening back to a 2007 article from \u003ca href=\"https://theonion.com/report-nations-gentrified-neighborhoods-threatened-by-1819569723/\">\u003cem>The Onion\u003c/em>\u003c/a> titled “Nation’s Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1438\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107215\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-2000x1124.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-2048x1151.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An aerial view shows a newly unveiled logo for “Meta”, the new name for Facebook’s parent company, in front of Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park on Oct. 28, 2021. – Facebook changed its parent company name to “Meta” on Oct. 28 as the tech giant tries to move past being a scandal-plagued social network to its virtual reality vision for the future. (NOAH BERGER/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And understandably so, given the ghosts of IPOs past. A 2019 Zillow \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/facebook-ipo-home-values/\">report\u003c/a> found that after Facebook went public with a $104 billion valuation, home values near the company’s Menlo Park headquarters climbed at a higher rate than other parts of the Bay Area real estate market — 21% compared to 17%. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But UC Berkeley economics professor Enrico Moretti said this particular IPO might not cause prices to increase much more than they already have — because of the limited number of people who live in the city \u003cem>and\u003c/em> work at Anthropic. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The demand for housing will increase by a few thousand units,” Moretti said. Anthropic has 5,300 employees globally as of Sept. 30, according to its SEC filing, but Moretti said that not all of the employees and investors who will profit are based in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260317-BeautifulBuildings-05-BL_qed-17647b3c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260317-BeautifulBuildings-05-BL_qed-17647b3c.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260317-BeautifulBuildings-05-BL_qed-17647b3c-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260317-BeautifulBuildings-05-BL_qed-17647b3c-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A house on California Street in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco on March 17, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While newly wealthy shareholders may not push up prices across the city, they could still drive up prices in specific neighborhoods near Anthropic and OpenAI’s headquarters, said Karen Chapple, a professor emerita at UC Berkeley focused on economic development and housing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These areas include Mission-Potrero, South of Market, Pacific Heights, Hayes Valley and potentially downtown, Chapple said. “People really want to get to work within 15 minutes,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something else that might contribute to rising prices is the city’s ongoing shortage of available units. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The Bay Area economy is between a rock and a hard place,” said Christopher Thornberg, a founding partner of research and consulting firm Beacon Economics. “The rock is this AI funding that’s pouring in; the hard place is the lack of housing.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>More money, more jobs and bigger ice cream cones \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Who will be most impacted: Service industry employees, AI-adjacent industries and artisans. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to the economy, more money usually means more jobs — usually. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moretti said a single new tech job typically creates four to five additional jobs outside the tech sector. That’s because “every time that a new tech job is created in a metro area, that income is spent, in part, in the local economy,” Moretti said, listing everything from retail and restaurants to healthcare, education and architecture. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But while \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-financial-and-quantitative-analysis/article/local-economic-spillover-effects-of-stock-market-listings/E61E5EA26F8FEF5D5A9CBC8477493A6C\">research\u003c/a> has linked previous IPOs to significant job creation, Moretti said that this particular Anthropic IPO may produce fewer new jobs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2294539418-a86fe375-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2294539418-a86fe375-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2294539418-a86fe375-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2294539418-a86fe375-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2294539418-a86fe375-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2294539418-a86fe375-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Entrance to Foundry Square IV, headquarters of artificial intelligence company Anthropic, in the South of Market neighborhood, San Francisco, California, United States, Sept. 9, 2026. (Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That’s because companies have historically used IPOs to help them raise new capital and expand their operations — but that may not be the case for Anthropic. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It had plenty of capital. In fact, there were people banging on its door to provide capital,” Moretti said, adding that the AI industry as a whole has not been “capital-constrained.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without major employment growth from Anthropic itself, there will be fewer new employees to spend money in the Bay Area and, subsequently, fewer new jobs in complementary industries, he said. “There’s only so much that you can spend locally,” Moretti said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One sector that’s already seen an increase in local spending — and could see more as IPO wealth floods in? Elaborate, in-person events. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vivienne Errington-Barnes, founder of [Shift + Alt], a company that produces everything from corporate retreats to birthday parties for individuals and companies in the tech sector, said that “there is a direct correlation between AI becoming more prolific and people wanting more in-person events.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12107210\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-02-KQED-5ac416d1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107210\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-02-KQED-5ac416d1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-02-KQED-5ac416d1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-02-KQED-5ac416d1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shift+Alt planned a lavish event for luxury wine group Osiris Club. (Courtesy of Shift + Alt Events)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12107212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-04-KQED-8df42784.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107212\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-04-KQED-8df42784.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-04-KQED-8df42784-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-04-KQED-8df42784-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shift + Alt founder Vivienne Errington-Barnes said “human” experiences are becoming more coveted in the age of AI. (Courtesy of Shift + Alt Events)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There’s a lot of weird and wonderful things coming up, like people who are fabricating life-size ice cream cones,” Errington-Barnes said. “They want to be remembered.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People don’t just want more events; they want their events to be high-touch, high-impact and exceptionally human, Errington-Barnes said, describing a shift from DJs to live music and from light projections to physical performances and elaborate installations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We want the chef to come out and make a speech about how he made this Michelin star dish and what his story is. We want to get a human-interest kind of angle,” Errington-Barnes said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>IPOs could boost the industry of love\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Who will be most impacted: Wedding planners, divorce lawyers and the couples they serve. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another business that could see a local bump? Marriages and divorces.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 2012 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/433af3b0-a082-11e1-88e6-00144feabdc0\">Financial Times\u003c/a> article tracked the trend leading up to Facebook’s IPO, and found that wedding planners and wealth managers were gearing up to court newly-minted millionaires. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260403-SFLibraryWeddings-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12078843\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260403-SFLibraryWeddings-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260403-SFLibraryWeddings-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260403-SFLibraryWeddings-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A couple poses for photos in the San Francisco Public Library Main Library on April 3, 2026, before their wedding ceremony. The library hosted a limited series of weddings during its 30th anniversary celebration, offering couples a chance to marry in a unique civic space. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Divorce lawyers, too, could see an influx of clients, said Haitham Amin, a San Francisco attorney and founding partner of Amin Law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attorney said 90% of his clients are in the tech industry, and forecasted a wide number of possibilities based on his experiences following the Facebook IPO and the rise of Nvidia. A boon can make or break some relationships, he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There’s going to be a good chunk of people that are going to realize that big money comes with a lot of problems — usually marital problems,” Amin said. “People just change when they get a lot of money.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Billionaire altruists could donate wealth\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Who will be the most impacted: Anyone the effective altruists deem worthy. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As newly wealthy tech employees search for meaning and connection, they may start donating more to Bay Area charities … potentially. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After working with dot-com millionaires in the 1990s, psychologists Stephen Goldbart and Joan DiFuria coined the term \u003ca href=\"https://www.mmcinstitute.com/?page_id=15\">“sudden wealth syndrome”\u003c/a> — aimed at capturing how people can face issues finding meaning and purpose after coming into a shocking amount of money and can become isolated from friends and family. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We’re seeing what we call billionaire bubbles,” DiFuria told KQED. “These gated communities are getting deeper and thicker, because the money is higher.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some newly-minted millionaires retreat from society, DiFuria said. But others might decide to invest their money into their local communities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“If you’re richer and you decide to donate, history tells us that a share of that will go to local charities,” Moretti said. “I think this is an area where there’s probably going to be a significant effect.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Berber Jin, AI enterprise reporter for \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>, told KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915855/what-an-anthropic-ipo-could-mean-for-the-bay-area\">Forum\u003c/a> on Wednesday that early Anthropic employees have pledged up to half of their wealth to philanthropic causes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While wealthy philanthropists have historically donated to arts, culture and local nonprofits, the company has strong \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/09/26/nx-s1-5979085/the-ai-safety-debate-is-confusing-heres-our-guide-to-the-different-factions\">ties\u003c/a> to the effective altruism movement — a philosophy followed by some in the tech industry that purports to use rational thought to do the most long-term good possible. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The movement drew criticism after one of its most vocal proponents, crypto exchange founder \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/09/1141820351/can-billionaires-save-the-world-some-are-skeptical\">Sam Bankman-Fried\u003c/a>, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud and money laundering. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2341\" height=\"1559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1556770481-75ef1d7e.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1556770481-75ef1d7e.jpg 2341w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1556770481-75ef1d7e-2000x1332.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1556770481-75ef1d7e-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1556770481-75ef1d7e-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1556770481-75ef1d7e-2048x1364.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2341px) 100vw, 2341px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former FTX chief Sam Bankman-Fried leaves the Federal Courthouse following a bail hearing ahead of his October trial, in New York City on July 26, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jin said the enduring popularity of the movement among Anthropic’s earliest hires will likely impact how they spend their money. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Because effective altruism is so ingrained in their worldviews, the chatter right now amongst early employees is like we should donate this money to fund AI safety nonprofits,” Jin said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Living in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> can feel like living in a different economy from the rest of the U.S. — even a different world. Whether you’re buying a coffee or renting an apartment, prices inevitably get pegged to tech workers, many of whom make inconceivable amounts of money.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And soon, the Bay Area could pull even further away from the rest of the country now that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106384/ai-giant-anthropic-files-for-an-ipo-that-could-break-records\">Anthropic\u003c/a>, one of the AI giants, has filed its initial public offering paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission and could begin trading as soon as November. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The filing comes weeks after the company’s CEO, Dario Amodei, argued in an \u003ca href=\"https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology\">essay\u003c/a> for the slowdown of the development of AI models, acknowledging the risks associated with the “powerful” emergent technology are “serious.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IPO would give the company “enormous resources to accelerate its expansion,” \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-ipo-shares-public-ca2f4c282bef3201a392e59e3df2300c\">\u003cem>the Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a> said, and would turn the startup into one of the world’s most valuable companies, even at lower estimates.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>The IPO and the Bay \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the company goes public, Anthropic employees and investors can begin selling their shares, turning their hitherto-hypothetical millions into cold hard cash. (That exact timing, however, will depend on a shareholder’s individual \u003ca href=\"https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lockup-period.asp\">“lock-up”\u003c/a> schedule.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bay Area is no stranger to technological \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655090/how-californias-gold-rush-forged-the-path-for-todays-tech-innovators\">“Gold Rushes.”\u003c/a> But Anthropic’s imminent IPO could blow them all out of the water, with reports estimating a valuation as high as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/10/26/nx-s1-6014772/anthropic-ai-ipo-could-break-records\">$2 trillion\u003c/a>. And speculation has already begun about the impact this kind of cash could have on the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In July, \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/news/openai-anthropic-housing-wealth/\">Redfin\u003c/a> estimated that the current and former employees of Anthropic — and fellow AI company OpenAI, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/09/12/nx-s1-5950588/openai-anthropic-ai-safety-researchers-hacks\">delayed\u003c/a> its own IPO to 2027 — could hypothetically make enough from their respective IPOs to buy up a third of the total homes in San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"857\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1adc92e1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107213\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1adc92e1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1adc92e1-160x69.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1adc92e1-1536x658.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A row of homes on Capp Street, between 22nd and 23rd Streets, in San Francisco’s Mission District. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But economists are skeptical the offering will bring widespread change. Ted Egan, the city of San Francisco’s chief economist, said that the impact of Anthropic’s IPO on San Francisco’s budget will be “modest” at best. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“While it could potentially be a lot of money, I’m not sure it will be particularly noticeable to everybody in the city,” Egan said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here’s what we know about how the coming Anthropic IPO could affect you in the Bay Area. Spoiler: Many of its impacts on those of us in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html\">“permanent underclass”\u003c/a> are already here. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Housing prices could keep rising\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Who will be most affected: Anyone trying to buy a house, afford rent, or move in San Francisco. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">Real estate and rental prices\u003c/a> increased \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12095536/after-the-18000-scam-how-can-bay-area-renters-protect-themselves\">dramatically\u003c/a> over the summer, thanks to a booming AI economy. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Redfin’s latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/cost-of-living-calculator/san-francisco-ca\">data\u003c/a> shows that the average price to buy a home in San Francisco is about $1.7 million dollars and the average rental is about $4,000 — 161% more than the national average.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With prices already high, news of Anthropic’s IPO sparked \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1whm8cg/future_of_sf_housing/\">fear\u003c/a> in both renters and buyers — with one \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1xfzic9/anthropic_files_for_ipo_setting_the_stage_for_a/\">Reddit\u003c/a> user harkening back to a 2007 article from \u003ca href=\"https://theonion.com/report-nations-gentrified-neighborhoods-threatened-by-1819569723/\">\u003cem>The Onion\u003c/em>\u003c/a> titled “Nation’s Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1438\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107215\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-2000x1124.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-2048x1151.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1236193788-a3ffbc0d-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An aerial view shows a newly unveiled logo for “Meta”, the new name for Facebook’s parent company, in front of Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park on Oct. 28, 2021. – Facebook changed its parent company name to “Meta” on Oct. 28 as the tech giant tries to move past being a scandal-plagued social network to its virtual reality vision for the future. (NOAH BERGER/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And understandably so, given the ghosts of IPOs past. A 2019 Zillow \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/facebook-ipo-home-values/\">report\u003c/a> found that after Facebook went public with a $104 billion valuation, home values near the company’s Menlo Park headquarters climbed at a higher rate than other parts of the Bay Area real estate market — 21% compared to 17%. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But UC Berkeley economics professor Enrico Moretti said this particular IPO might not cause prices to increase much more than they already have — because of the limited number of people who live in the city \u003cem>and\u003c/em> work at Anthropic. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The demand for housing will increase by a few thousand units,” Moretti said. Anthropic has 5,300 employees globally as of Sept. 30, according to its SEC filing, but Moretti said that not all of the employees and investors who will profit are based in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260317-BeautifulBuildings-05-BL_qed-17647b3c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260317-BeautifulBuildings-05-BL_qed-17647b3c.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260317-BeautifulBuildings-05-BL_qed-17647b3c-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260317-BeautifulBuildings-05-BL_qed-17647b3c-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A house on California Street in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco on March 17, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While newly wealthy shareholders may not push up prices across the city, they could still drive up prices in specific neighborhoods near Anthropic and OpenAI’s headquarters, said Karen Chapple, a professor emerita at UC Berkeley focused on economic development and housing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These areas include Mission-Potrero, South of Market, Pacific Heights, Hayes Valley and potentially downtown, Chapple said. “People really want to get to work within 15 minutes,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something else that might contribute to rising prices is the city’s ongoing shortage of available units. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The Bay Area economy is between a rock and a hard place,” said Christopher Thornberg, a founding partner of research and consulting firm Beacon Economics. “The rock is this AI funding that’s pouring in; the hard place is the lack of housing.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>More money, more jobs and bigger ice cream cones \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Who will be most impacted: Service industry employees, AI-adjacent industries and artisans. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to the economy, more money usually means more jobs — usually. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moretti said a single new tech job typically creates four to five additional jobs outside the tech sector. That’s because “every time that a new tech job is created in a metro area, that income is spent, in part, in the local economy,” Moretti said, listing everything from retail and restaurants to healthcare, education and architecture. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But while \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-financial-and-quantitative-analysis/article/local-economic-spillover-effects-of-stock-market-listings/E61E5EA26F8FEF5D5A9CBC8477493A6C\">research\u003c/a> has linked previous IPOs to significant job creation, Moretti said that this particular Anthropic IPO may produce fewer new jobs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2294539418-a86fe375-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2294539418-a86fe375-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2294539418-a86fe375-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2294539418-a86fe375-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2294539418-a86fe375-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2294539418-a86fe375-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Entrance to Foundry Square IV, headquarters of artificial intelligence company Anthropic, in the South of Market neighborhood, San Francisco, California, United States, Sept. 9, 2026. (Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That’s because companies have historically used IPOs to help them raise new capital and expand their operations — but that may not be the case for Anthropic. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It had plenty of capital. In fact, there were people banging on its door to provide capital,” Moretti said, adding that the AI industry as a whole has not been “capital-constrained.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without major employment growth from Anthropic itself, there will be fewer new employees to spend money in the Bay Area and, subsequently, fewer new jobs in complementary industries, he said. “There’s only so much that you can spend locally,” Moretti said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One sector that’s already seen an increase in local spending — and could see more as IPO wealth floods in? Elaborate, in-person events. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vivienne Errington-Barnes, founder of [Shift + Alt], a company that produces everything from corporate retreats to birthday parties for individuals and companies in the tech sector, said that “there is a direct correlation between AI becoming more prolific and people wanting more in-person events.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12107210\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-02-KQED-5ac416d1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107210\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-02-KQED-5ac416d1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-02-KQED-5ac416d1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-02-KQED-5ac416d1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shift+Alt planned a lavish event for luxury wine group Osiris Club. (Courtesy of Shift + Alt Events)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12107212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-04-KQED-8df42784.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107212\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-04-KQED-8df42784.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-04-KQED-8df42784-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261029-Anthropic-IPO-04-KQED-8df42784-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shift + Alt founder Vivienne Errington-Barnes said “human” experiences are becoming more coveted in the age of AI. (Courtesy of Shift + Alt Events)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There’s a lot of weird and wonderful things coming up, like people who are fabricating life-size ice cream cones,” Errington-Barnes said. “They want to be remembered.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People don’t just want more events; they want their events to be high-touch, high-impact and exceptionally human, Errington-Barnes said, describing a shift from DJs to live music and from light projections to physical performances and elaborate installations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We want the chef to come out and make a speech about how he made this Michelin star dish and what his story is. We want to get a human-interest kind of angle,” Errington-Barnes said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>IPOs could boost the industry of love\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Who will be most impacted: Wedding planners, divorce lawyers and the couples they serve. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another business that could see a local bump? Marriages and divorces.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 2012 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/433af3b0-a082-11e1-88e6-00144feabdc0\">Financial Times\u003c/a> article tracked the trend leading up to Facebook’s IPO, and found that wedding planners and wealth managers were gearing up to court newly-minted millionaires. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260403-SFLibraryWeddings-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12078843\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260403-SFLibraryWeddings-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260403-SFLibraryWeddings-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260403-SFLibraryWeddings-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A couple poses for photos in the San Francisco Public Library Main Library on April 3, 2026, before their wedding ceremony. The library hosted a limited series of weddings during its 30th anniversary celebration, offering couples a chance to marry in a unique civic space. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Divorce lawyers, too, could see an influx of clients, said Haitham Amin, a San Francisco attorney and founding partner of Amin Law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attorney said 90% of his clients are in the tech industry, and forecasted a wide number of possibilities based on his experiences following the Facebook IPO and the rise of Nvidia. A boon can make or break some relationships, he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There’s going to be a good chunk of people that are going to realize that big money comes with a lot of problems — usually marital problems,” Amin said. “People just change when they get a lot of money.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Billionaire altruists could donate wealth\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Who will be the most impacted: Anyone the effective altruists deem worthy. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As newly wealthy tech employees search for meaning and connection, they may start donating more to Bay Area charities … potentially. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After working with dot-com millionaires in the 1990s, psychologists Stephen Goldbart and Joan DiFuria coined the term \u003ca href=\"https://www.mmcinstitute.com/?page_id=15\">“sudden wealth syndrome”\u003c/a> — aimed at capturing how people can face issues finding meaning and purpose after coming into a shocking amount of money and can become isolated from friends and family. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We’re seeing what we call billionaire bubbles,” DiFuria told KQED. “These gated communities are getting deeper and thicker, because the money is higher.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some newly-minted millionaires retreat from society, DiFuria said. But others might decide to invest their money into their local communities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“If you’re richer and you decide to donate, history tells us that a share of that will go to local charities,” Moretti said. “I think this is an area where there’s probably going to be a significant effect.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Berber Jin, AI enterprise reporter for \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>, told KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915855/what-an-anthropic-ipo-could-mean-for-the-bay-area\">Forum\u003c/a> on Wednesday that early Anthropic employees have pledged up to half of their wealth to philanthropic causes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While wealthy philanthropists have historically donated to arts, culture and local nonprofits, the company has strong \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/09/26/nx-s1-5979085/the-ai-safety-debate-is-confusing-heres-our-guide-to-the-different-factions\">ties\u003c/a> to the effective altruism movement — a philosophy followed by some in the tech industry that purports to use rational thought to do the most long-term good possible. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The movement drew criticism after one of its most vocal proponents, crypto exchange founder \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/09/1141820351/can-billionaires-save-the-world-some-are-skeptical\">Sam Bankman-Fried\u003c/a>, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud and money laundering. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2341\" height=\"1559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1556770481-75ef1d7e.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1556770481-75ef1d7e.jpg 2341w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1556770481-75ef1d7e-2000x1332.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1556770481-75ef1d7e-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1556770481-75ef1d7e-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-1556770481-75ef1d7e-2048x1364.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2341px) 100vw, 2341px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former FTX chief Sam Bankman-Fried leaves the Federal Courthouse following a bail hearing ahead of his October trial, in New York City on July 26, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jin said the enduring popularity of the movement among Anthropic’s earliest hires will likely impact how they spend their money. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Because effective altruism is so ingrained in their worldviews, the chatter right now amongst early employees is like we should donate this money to fund AI safety nonprofits,” Jin said. Effective altruists often focus on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201504091000/poor-kids-vs-batkid-ethicist-peter-singer-on-how-to-choose-a-charitable-cause\">global causes\u003c/a> including animal welfare and public health. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to spending more on philanthropy, Anthropic employees could continue to ramp up their political donations — they’ve already been spending big on AI-safety PACs, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/dario-amodei-donation-22348647.php\">\u003cem>SFGate\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Climate change and environmental concerns \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Who will be the most impacted: Climate tech, nonprofits and environmental advocates. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI’s impact on our environment is a hot topic — pun intended. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many groups have called attention to data centers’ staggering energy and water usage — which can lead to increased emissions and disrupt local water supplies and ecosystems, according to \u003ca href=\"https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117\">\u003cem>MIT News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other \u003ca href=\"https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/can-ais-climate-benefits-outweigh-its-costs\">research\u003c/a> has also linked AI’s climate impact to the emissions associated with increasing production and economic growth. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wealth itself is often \u003ca href=\"https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-emit-much-planet-heating-pollution-two-thirds-humanity\">linked\u003c/a> to pollution, especially when it’s spent on fossil-fuel-intensive goods and services like driving, flying and eating red meat, just to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260828-SOUTH-BAY-DATA-CENTERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098431\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260828-SOUTH-BAY-DATA-CENTERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260828-SOUTH-BAY-DATA-CENTERS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260828-SOUTH-BAY-DATA-CENTERS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Buildings in the Alviso neighborhood of San José that Google plans to modify to operate in a capacity similar to a data center on Sept. 3, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But on an individual level, “someone becoming a multimillionaire overnight does not suddenly mean that they are generating more emissions,” said Ben Gould, president of EcoDataLab, a firm that calculates consumer emissions for cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“If anything, I would actually expect the IPO to have beneficial local climate impacts,” Gould told KQED by email. “Anthropic’s employees are probably more climate-conscious than average, and coming into a large amount of liquidity could help enable them to invest in low-emission technologies for their homes and lifestyles, like solar panels, heat pumps and EVs.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His colleague Christopher Jones, director of UC Berkeley’s CoolClimate Network, a group aimed at scaling up climate solutions, suggested that the development of AI has the potential — like the advent of personal computers — to enable the spread of low-carbon technologies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> “The largest environmental impacts of AI will not be from the water or energy demand of server farms, or the wealth generated for shareholders or employees,” Jones said, “but rather how AI will be used to change the ways humans live on the planet.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is, if it doesn’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/09/13/nx-s1-5966638/could-ai-kill-us-all-professor-weighs-in-on-former-anthropic-employees-claim\">kill us\u003c/a> all first. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dventon\">\u003cem>Danielle Venton\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>and\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem>Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based online grocery company \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/category/technology\">Instacart\u003c/a> agreed to a $5 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, following allegations that the company discriminated against American workers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The settlement comes as part of the Trump administration’s “Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative” and “Project Firewall,” aimed at stopping employers who “illegally favor foreign workers over workers of American national origin,” according to the DOJ’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/civil-rights-division-and-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-secure-5000000-joint\">press release\u003c/a>. Tech companies that employ a significant \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/trump-says-skilled-foreign-workers-take-jobs-away-from-americans-its-not-that-simple-experts-say\">number\u003c/a> of H-1B holders have been impacted by the federal push.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The DOJ said that it investigated Instacart for burdening U.S. workers during Program Electronic Review Management, or \u003ca href=\"https://flag.dol.gov/programs/perm\">PERM\u003c/a>, a mandatory process where companies interested in sponsoring workers permanently must first make sure there are no U.S. citizens who are qualified, willing and able to take the job. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to the DOJ, their investigation found that Instacart required U.S. employees to physically mail their applications for job postings advertised during PERM. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1148\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42333_GettyImages-1207671954-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11809217\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42333_GettyImages-1207671954-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42333_GettyImages-1207671954-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42333_GettyImages-1207671954-qut-800x478.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42333_GettyImages-1207671954-qut-1020x610.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An Instacart worker scans barcodes showing proof of purchase for a customer while picking up groceries. Instacart shoppers are planning a nationwide strike on March 30, 2020. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“While we maintain that our practices complied with all applicable laws and regulations, we’re pleased to have resolved this matter so we can keep our full focus on delivering on our mission for customers, shoppers, retailers, and brands,” an Instacart spokesperson told KQED in a statement, adding that some of the PERM requirements are outdated and do not reflect how companies recruit talent today. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-h1b-visas-perm-tech-jobs-recruitment\">ProPublica\u003c/a>, PERM requirements were created in the pre-internet era and state that employers must post the job in two successive Sunday newspapers in the job’s location. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Following the settlement, the company will put $4 million in a fund for Instacart applicants who may have been impacted by “discriminatory practices” between December 2023 and February 2026. The other $1 million will go to the U.S. government in civil penalties, according to the press release. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Instacart is just one of the tech companies that have faced this type of lawsuit. Earlier this summer, OpenAI settled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1455621/dl?inline\">case\u003c/a> for a little over $3 million for requiring workers to file applications by mail. Apple settled a similar case in \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-secures-25-million-landmark-agreement-apple-resolve-employment\">2023\u003c/a>, and Facebook settled one in \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/press-release/file/1443336/dl?inline\">2021\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While the federal government cracks down on PERM enforcement, state and local governments are hitting companies like Instacart with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11774025/which-jobs-will-be-impacted-by-ab-5-californias-landmark-employment-measure\">AB 5\u003c/a> lawsuits. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The landmark legislation, which went into effect in 2020, makes it harder for companies to classify employees as independent contractors. This shift protects gig workers by forcing companies to provide basic protections, including minimum wage, overtime, healthcare and Social Security contributions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2022, Instacart settled a $46.5 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/nr221010a.pdf\">lawsuit\u003c/a> for misclassifying workers as independent contractors and not providing them with mileage reimbursement and other benefits. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>Ballhalla saw its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-state-valkyries\">Golden State Valkyries\u003c/a> fall for the first time this postseason, as the Atlanta Dream pulled ahead in the second half Monday evening and clinched the win. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Riding into Game 2 of the WNBA Finals off a four-point win Saturday, the Valkyries struggled to stay afloat. After losing the lead right at halftime, the team put up only nine points in the third quarter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the Dream tacked on 21 points to end the third quarter strong, finishing with a 14-point lead over the Valkyries. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The crowd erupted in groans during a handful of foul calls in the third quarter — with some fans chanting “Ref, you suck!” from the bleachers, according to KQED’s Natalia Navarro, who reported live from Ballhalla. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-7 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105237\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-31-BL-7a9b8a29.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-31-BL-7a9b8a29.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-31-BL-7a9b8a29-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-31-BL-7a9b8a29-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Golden State Valkyries huddle after losing to the Atlanta Dream during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105230\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries Veronica Burton plays during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105228\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-14-BL-d68531d0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105228\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-14-BL-d68531d0.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-14-BL-d68531d0-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-14-BL-d68531d0-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fans cheer during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-29-BL-5d7293b1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105236\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-29-BL-5d7293b1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-29-BL-5d7293b1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-29-BL-5d7293b1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fans react after the Golden State Valkyries lose to the Atlanta Dream during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jordin Canada ended the quarter with a buzzer beater from across the court, before the Dream continued dominating the fourth quarter, scoring an additional 19 points. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Angel Reese carried the Dream’s offense with a double-double — 30 points and 16 rebounds. She also made history, becoming the youngest player in WNBA history to have at least 20 points and 10 boards in a Finals game.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Dream sank nearly twice as many free throws as the Valkyries, clearing 30 out of 35 shots from the line, with the Valkyries making 16 out of 19. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Valkyries fought through the end, putting 19 points on the board in the fourth quarter, but ultimately, were left chasing the Dream, who forced 19 turnovers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the postgame conference, Valkyries guard Veronica Burton said they “shot terribly” and that they “need to be able to take a punch and punch back.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite the loss, the fans still have faith and they kept the energy high through the bitter end.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“These ladies can pull it out,” Merrill Feather told KQED after the game. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The good news is, there will be one more game here and they’ll take it then,” Paul Wedel said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The franchise has come a long — and fast — way since its debut in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As the WNBA’s 13th addition to the league, the Valkyries have seen an explosive rise, with one of the league’s most devoted fan bases. Violet-clad crowds flock to Chase Center to cheer them on, and the team has already broken records. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003cem>Sportico\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sportico.com/leagues/basketball/2026/golden-state-valkyries-revenue-first-100-million-1234946807/\">reported\u003c/a> that the Valkyries became the first professional women’s sports team in history to surpass $100 million in annual revenue. It also estimated that after a full WNBA Finals run, the Valkyries could end up bringing in around $30 million more.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-8 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105230\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries Veronica Burton plays during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-21-BL-c1761e82.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105243\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-21-BL-c1761e82.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-21-BL-c1761e82-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-21-BL-c1761e82-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">East Bay rapper LaRussell performs at halftime during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-13-BL-21d0d3b1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105227\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-13-BL-21d0d3b1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-13-BL-21d0d3b1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-13-BL-21d0d3b1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fans cheer during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-26-BL-e17d384c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-26-BL-e17d384c.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-26-BL-e17d384c-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-26-BL-e17d384c-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Golden State Valkyries play the Atlanta Dream during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Athletic’s podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/podcast/287-the-athletic-womens-basketball-show/\">No Offseason\u003c/a>, said that Ballhalla gives the Valkyries a significant home-court advantage. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Valkyries sold out every game this \u003ca href=\"https://valkyries.wnba.com/news/golden-state-valkyries-sell-out-all-home-games-for-second-consecutive-season\">season\u003c/a> and last — packing the stands with violet wigs, sequin jackets and fans chanting “G-S-V” until they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103702/golden-state-valkyries-advance-to-wnba-finals-after-sweeping-las-vegas-aces\">lose their voices\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Games 3 and 4 will take place in Atlanta’s 17,000-seat State Farm Arena. The venue is an upgrade from the Dream’s usual home, the Gateway Center Arena at College Park, which holds just 3,500 fans. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>To make the move work, Game 3 was pushed up from Oct. 22 to Oct. 21. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For Game 4, the Hawks changed their tipoff time on Oct. 24 from 8:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and the Valkyries and the Dream changed theirs from 3:30 p.m. to 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-9 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105173\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-03-BL-47a34861.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105173\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-03-BL-47a34861.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-03-BL-47a34861-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-03-BL-47a34861-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Toni Noonan wears Golden State Valkyries face paint before Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105223\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-04-BL-9f8e9d68.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105223\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-04-BL-9f8e9d68.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-04-BL-9f8e9d68-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-04-BL-9f8e9d68-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stacey Camillo cheers before Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While the Valkyries are away, fans can cheer together throughout the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104461/ballhalla-better-be-prepping-where-to-cheer-on-the-valkyries-in-the-wnba-finals\">city\u003c/a> or stop by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104572/going-to-cheer-for-the-valkyries-this-saturday-stop-by-boohalla\">Boohalla\u003c/a> to get in the violet spirit. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If the series goes to Game 7, the Valkyries and the Dream return to San Francisco for a haunted Halloween showdown. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A standout moment for Game 2, KQED’s Natalia Navarro reported, was what came after the buzzer. Valkyries fans proved their reputation, chanting “G-S-V” for a solid minute and cheering the team off the court.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Ballhalla saw its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-state-valkyries\">Golden State Valkyries\u003c/a> fall for the first time this postseason, as the Atlanta Dream pulled ahead in the second half Monday evening and clinched the win. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Riding into Game 2 of the WNBA Finals off a four-point win Saturday, the Valkyries struggled to stay afloat. After losing the lead right at halftime, the team put up only nine points in the third quarter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the Dream tacked on 21 points to end the third quarter strong, finishing with a 14-point lead over the Valkyries. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The crowd erupted in groans during a handful of foul calls in the third quarter — with some fans chanting “Ref, you suck!” from the bleachers, according to KQED’s Natalia Navarro, who reported live from Ballhalla. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-7 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105237\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-31-BL-7a9b8a29.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-31-BL-7a9b8a29.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-31-BL-7a9b8a29-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-31-BL-7a9b8a29-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Golden State Valkyries huddle after losing to the Atlanta Dream during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105230\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries Veronica Burton plays during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105228\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-14-BL-d68531d0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105228\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-14-BL-d68531d0.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-14-BL-d68531d0-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-14-BL-d68531d0-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fans cheer during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-29-BL-5d7293b1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105236\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-29-BL-5d7293b1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-29-BL-5d7293b1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-29-BL-5d7293b1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fans react after the Golden State Valkyries lose to the Atlanta Dream during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jordin Canada ended the quarter with a buzzer beater from across the court, before the Dream continued dominating the fourth quarter, scoring an additional 19 points. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Angel Reese carried the Dream’s offense with a double-double — 30 points and 16 rebounds. She also made history, becoming the youngest player in WNBA history to have at least 20 points and 10 boards in a Finals game.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Dream sank nearly twice as many free throws as the Valkyries, clearing 30 out of 35 shots from the line, with the Valkyries making 16 out of 19. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Valkyries fought through the end, putting 19 points on the board in the fourth quarter, but ultimately, were left chasing the Dream, who forced 19 turnovers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the postgame conference, Valkyries guard Veronica Burton said they “shot terribly” and that they “need to be able to take a punch and punch back.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite the loss, the fans still have faith and they kept the energy high through the bitter end.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“These ladies can pull it out,” Merrill Feather told KQED after the game. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The good news is, there will be one more game here and they’ll take it then,” Paul Wedel said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The franchise has come a long — and fast — way since its debut in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As the WNBA’s 13th addition to the league, the Valkyries have seen an explosive rise, with one of the league’s most devoted fan bases. Violet-clad crowds flock to Chase Center to cheer them on, and the team has already broken records. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003cem>Sportico\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sportico.com/leagues/basketball/2026/golden-state-valkyries-revenue-first-100-million-1234946807/\">reported\u003c/a> that the Valkyries became the first professional women’s sports team in history to surpass $100 million in annual revenue. It also estimated that after a full WNBA Finals run, the Valkyries could end up bringing in around $30 million more.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-8 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105230\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-19-BL-0bb766d6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries Veronica Burton plays during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-21-BL-c1761e82.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105243\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-21-BL-c1761e82.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-21-BL-c1761e82-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-21-BL-c1761e82-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">East Bay rapper LaRussell performs at halftime during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-13-BL-21d0d3b1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105227\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-13-BL-21d0d3b1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-13-BL-21d0d3b1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-13-BL-21d0d3b1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fans cheer during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-26-BL-e17d384c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-26-BL-e17d384c.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-26-BL-e17d384c-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-26-BL-e17d384c-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Golden State Valkyries play the Atlanta Dream during Game 2 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Athletic’s podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/podcast/287-the-athletic-womens-basketball-show/\">No Offseason\u003c/a>, said that Ballhalla gives the Valkyries a significant home-court advantage. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Valkyries sold out every game this \u003ca href=\"https://valkyries.wnba.com/news/golden-state-valkyries-sell-out-all-home-games-for-second-consecutive-season\">season\u003c/a> and last — packing the stands with violet wigs, sequin jackets and fans chanting “G-S-V” until they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103702/golden-state-valkyries-advance-to-wnba-finals-after-sweeping-las-vegas-aces\">lose their voices\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Games 3 and 4 will take place in Atlanta’s 17,000-seat State Farm Arena. The venue is an upgrade from the Dream’s usual home, the Gateway Center Arena at College Park, which holds just 3,500 fans. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>To make the move work, Game 3 was pushed up from Oct. 22 to Oct. 21. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For Game 4, the Hawks changed their tipoff time on Oct. 24 from 8:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and the Valkyries and the Dream changed theirs from 3:30 p.m. to 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-9 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105173\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-03-BL-47a34861.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105173\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-03-BL-47a34861.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-03-BL-47a34861-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-03-BL-47a34861-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Toni Noonan wears Golden State Valkyries face paint before Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12105223\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-04-BL-9f8e9d68.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105223\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-04-BL-9f8e9d68.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-04-BL-9f8e9d68-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261019-ValksGame1-04-BL-9f8e9d68-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stacey Camillo cheers before Game 2 of the WNBA Finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2026. 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City officials and business leaders said they want to see this revitalization include the Tenderloin.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>A joint press release from Mahmood’s office and the MMBA said the San Francisco Downtown Development Corporation, Proper Hotel Group and Chris Larsen committed $500,000 in initial seed funding toward this revitalization effort.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Fernando Pujals, executive director of the Mid-Market Business Association, said that the pilot project will lean into the neighborhood’s “creative infrastructure and its history” as a theater and arts district. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you look back at the turn of the century, post-earthquake and fire, some of the first buildings that were still standing or built, were theaters along Market Street,” Pujals said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261014_TenderloinTheater_GC-5-KQED-cc711cd2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12104458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261014_TenderloinTheater_GC-5-KQED-cc711cd2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261014_TenderloinTheater_GC-5-KQED-cc711cd2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261014_TenderloinTheater_GC-5-KQED-cc711cd2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco on Oct. 14, 2026. 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The Downtown Development Corporation also pledged nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/downtown-fund-small-businesses-22210077.php\">$25\u003c/a> million to revitalize downtown, according to \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Mahmood said that this is the first time the Downtown Development Corporation is investing in something west of Powell Street, and that starting the pilot on the 900 block of Market Street allowed for a natural continuation of the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-signs-legislation-advancing-145-million-grant-for-powell-street-renovation-to-accelerate-san-franciscos-economic-comeback\">Powell Street\u003c/a> revitalization efforts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One of the goals of the pilot is to find ways to get new businesses into ground-floor storefronts, which Pujals said has been a challenge — “costs are high.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to Pujals, many of the ground-floor spaces have large floor plans, making them impractical for small businesses. 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Gavin Newsom speaks at Google’s San Francisco office about “Creating an AI-Ready Workforce,” a new joint effort with some of the world’s leading tech companies to help better prepare California’s students and workers for the next generation of technology, in San Francisco on Aug. 7, 2025. 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He described a shift from making decisions to “shoveling data” — where workers are asked to put information into AI systems and let the machines do the rest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This change in the nature of their work and the rapid advancement of AI models has coincided with massive \u003ca href=\"https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/what-really-happening-jobs-separating-ai-hype-reality\">restructuring\u003c/a> in the industry. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Already, software companies have laid off tens of thousands of employees, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084655/after-meta-layoffs-newsom-signs-ai-order-to-protect-workers-and-jobs\">citing\u003c/a> a desire to shift spending towards “AI-focused employees and data center construction.” While more employees were laid off in 2023 than 2026, this year saw a rise in layoffs directly attributed to AI, according to \u003ca href=\"https://layoffs.fyi/\">layoffs.fyi\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A 2026 AI Index report from \u003ca href=\"https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report\">Stanford University\u003c/a> found that one-third of organizations surveyed anticipate there will be more job reductions in the near future and that employment for entry-level software developers fell 20% from 2024. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think this is the first era in recent memory outside of maybe the ‘70s and ‘80s where there’s been a real, legitimate fear of actual labor displacement,” Bernick said. “Unions are a really good way to combat that.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Political problems\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While some tech workers are organizing to protect their jobs, others are turning to collective bargaining as a way to challenge their company’s political decisions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alex Samburov, a member of the Alphabet Workers Union, has been organizing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.googlers-against-ice.com/\">Googlers Against ICE Campaign,\u003c/a> which opposes their employer’s partnerships with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The campaign specifically calls out the use of AI by federal agencies for “workforce enablement” and “improving operational efficiency,” among other tools, according to the petition. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Samburov, a Russian immigrant, said he joined Google in 2019 right after the tech giant canceled a contract with the Department of Defense for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668872/google-employees-quit-in-protest-over-military-artificial-intelligence-program\">Project Maven\u003c/a> — a U.S. program that uses AI to help drones distinguish between people and objects — following pressure from employees. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SILICONVALLEYUNION-05-BL-KQED-42cdf772.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103634\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SILICONVALLEYUNION-05-BL-KQED-42cdf772.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SILICONVALLEYUNION-05-BL-KQED-42cdf772-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SILICONVALLEYUNION-05-BL-KQED-42cdf772-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alex Samburov, a software engineer at Google, stands at the Google offices in San Francisco on Oct. 8, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s the company culture that attracted me to Google,” Samburov said. “Every day I meet more people who care about these issues, meet people who are willing to risk their employment. Some of them are willing to take a risk despite being immigrants like myself.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Samburov said that workers within Google have the most leverage to change the company. He said that creates an obligation to check how the company uses his labor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We have seen Google demonstrate that the organization doesn’t care about much else. Users don’t really have leverage in this relationship and American voters don’t seem to have much leverage either,” Samburov said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The campaign reached 1,700 signatures last month and has since been formally endorsed by the union. Google declined to make anyone available to comment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But organizing around these political and ethical questions has become more difficult as layoffs make workers feel more vulnerable, Carroll said. Unions can be helpful here, he said, because they can provide the structure, protections and democratic processes to help workers advocate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The workers are the ones building and maintaining the internet, AI, social media and everything in-between, Carroll said, but a lot of decisions are being put on them from the top down. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If we can come together to see a different direction … there’s a lot of power there,” Carroll said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Silicon Valley’s long history of resistance to unions \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The idea of tech workers organizing collectively is still unusual in Silicon Valley. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Alphabet Workers Union, one of the most prominent tech unions, represents \u003ca href=\"https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/faqs\">“over a thousand”\u003c/a> employees out of roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091358/4500-google-employees-demand-job-security-amid-big-tech-layoffs\">190,000\u003c/a> employees and is not yet registered with the National Labor Relations Board. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nationally, just 3.7% of workers in “computer and mathematical occupations” are unionized, compared to 10% of workers across other industries according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat42.htm\">Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10638229\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Google employees walk around campus on Aug. 10, 2015. 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And at the same time, Silicon Valley companies developed aggressive strategies for keeping their workplaces union-free. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While U.S. union membership \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/labor-unions-and-the-us-economy\">peaked\u003c/a> around 1950 — with over 30% of the American workforce carrying a union card at the time — O’Mara said that the management in the Valley was “pretty strongly anti-union.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“From Hewlett-Packard forward, there was an idea that if you had a union in your company, that was a sign that management was doing it wrong,” O’Mara said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Founded in 1939, Hewlett-Packard pioneered some of the systems that keep tech employees aligned with their management even today, O’Mara said, such as stock options. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While stock options, the ability to buy shares of the company at a reduced price, had long been an option for management, HP opened them up and turned them into “a way to deliver employee benefits that was kind of different from the way a standardized, unionized shop would work,” O’Mara said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The relationship between employers and workers was different on the factory floor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>David Bacon, a former engineering technician and union organizer at National Semiconductor, said that the companies were “laboratories for keeping themselves union-free.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They did this by a number of means,” Bacon said, “for instance, ensuring that the production workforce in the semiconductor plants [was] made up of immigrants and a huge majority of women,” who managers could intimidate because they were more “vulnerable.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bacon also said he and other union organizers were fired and blacklisted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The result was a workplace culture in which unionization could seem unnecessary, or even antithetical to the work, for some and dangerous for others. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carroll said that talking to his coworkers about unionizing today often involves a lot of education. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He often has to explain to them, he said, that “it would be illegal for the companies to retaliate or discriminate against us for [organizing around working conditions].”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The future of AI workers?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As organizers like Carroll, Bernick and Samburov push for unionization, some experts question whether the current wave of AI and political anxiety will translate into meaningful union drives.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lenny Siegel, former mayor of Mountain View and a longtime activist, said that he does not believe AI alone will push tech workers to unionize. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Unless the AI bubble pops, Siegel said he is “not expecting people [in Silicon Valley] to have trouble negotiating individually for bread and butter issues.” Without the need to collectively bargain, unionization is unlikely — especially given the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/trump-says-skilled-foreign-workers-take-jobs-away-from-americans-its-not-that-simple-experts-say\">high concentration\u003c/a> of tech employees on H1B visas who risk losing everything if their company decides to retaliate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1379\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DonaldTrumpGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12066914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DonaldTrumpGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DonaldTrumpGetty1-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DonaldTrumpGetty1-1536x1059.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on Dec. 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The executive order curbs states’ ability to regulate artificial intelligence, something for which the tech industry has been lobbying. 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After seeing “what Google and Amazon were doing to support the genocide in Gaza,” Carroll said he started trying “to improve the industry and how my work was being used.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2259952730.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12079890\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2259952730.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2259952730-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2259952730-1536x1066.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A sign is posted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Feb. 4, 2026. 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But as artificial intelligence rapidly changes the nature of technical work, organizers say more tech employees are reconsidering their position in the industry, and following in the footsteps of labor organizers past.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI anxieties \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While some tech workers are wondering how they’ll spend their IPO windfalls, others are experiencing all too familiar AI anxieties: Will AI change our jobs? Will it eliminate them? Will it eliminate us all?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Last month, employees at frontier AI labs Anthropic and Google drew widespread attention to AI safety issues by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/two-ai-researchers-leave-anthropic-google-safety-concerns-rcna597086\">quitting\u003c/a> over concerns that their companies cannot control the technology. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carroll said he does not discount AI’s existential risk, but he remains more concerned by its “immediate and material harms in terms of labor displacement and social impacts and environmental impacts and surveillance and weaponization — all the things that are happening now.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GavinNewsomGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GavinNewsomGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GavinNewsomGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GavinNewsomGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at Google’s San Francisco office about “Creating an AI-Ready Workforce,” a new joint effort with some of the world’s leading tech companies to help better prepare California’s students and workers for the next generation of technology, in San Francisco on Aug. 7, 2025. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jeremy Bernick, an Arizona-based attorney and member of the Communications Workers of America, a national union that represents workers at Alphabet and Wikimedia, said they are worried about senior management pushing AI onto junior employees. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“A lot of us are thinking, no, it actually degrades or slows down our work processes,” Bernick said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bernick said there’s some fear that companies will use “token tracking,” a method to see how often each employee uses AI, and other forms of surveillance as part of performance reviews.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As these concerns grew, Bernick said that CWA formed an AI advisory committee and has released an AI bargaining toolkit for workers. In September, white-collar workers at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12092335/staff-of-san-francisco-based-wikipedia-demand-union-recognition-raise-concerns-over-ai\">Wikimedia\u003c/a> voted to form a union, and \u003ca href=\"https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/blizzard-entertainment-workers-ratify-historic-video-game-contracts-cwa\">Blizzard Entertainment\u003c/a> ratified their union contract — both drives have mentioned AI usage. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While many engineers have adopted AI into their workflow, others said that AI makes their previously creative and intellectually stimulating job more rote and less impactful. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1390\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261004_SILICONVALLEYUNION_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102878\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261004_SILICONVALLEYUNION_GC-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261004_SILICONVALLEYUNION_GC-3-KQED-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261004_SILICONVALLEYUNION_GC-3-KQED-1536x1068.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joshua Carroll, a tech worker at Google and core organizer of Tech Workers Coalition, poses for a portrait at his home in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We can see how our control and influence over actual product decisions — and the impact on society — is likely to degrade and is degrading,” Carroll said. He described a shift from making decisions to “shoveling data” — where workers are asked to put information into AI systems and let the machines do the rest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This change in the nature of their work and the rapid advancement of AI models has coincided with massive \u003ca href=\"https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/what-really-happening-jobs-separating-ai-hype-reality\">restructuring\u003c/a> in the industry. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Already, software companies have laid off tens of thousands of employees, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084655/after-meta-layoffs-newsom-signs-ai-order-to-protect-workers-and-jobs\">citing\u003c/a> a desire to shift spending towards “AI-focused employees and data center construction.” While more employees were laid off in 2023 than 2026, this year saw a rise in layoffs directly attributed to AI, according to \u003ca href=\"https://layoffs.fyi/\">layoffs.fyi\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A 2026 AI Index report from \u003ca href=\"https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report\">Stanford University\u003c/a> found that one-third of organizations surveyed anticipate there will be more job reductions in the near future and that employment for entry-level software developers fell 20% from 2024. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think this is the first era in recent memory outside of maybe the ‘70s and ‘80s where there’s been a real, legitimate fear of actual labor displacement,” Bernick said. “Unions are a really good way to combat that.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Political problems\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While some tech workers are organizing to protect their jobs, others are turning to collective bargaining as a way to challenge their company’s political decisions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alex Samburov, a member of the Alphabet Workers Union, has been organizing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.googlers-against-ice.com/\">Googlers Against ICE Campaign,\u003c/a> which opposes their employer’s partnerships with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The campaign specifically calls out the use of AI by federal agencies for “workforce enablement” and “improving operational efficiency,” among other tools, according to the petition. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Samburov, a Russian immigrant, said he joined Google in 2019 right after the tech giant canceled a contract with the Department of Defense for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668872/google-employees-quit-in-protest-over-military-artificial-intelligence-program\">Project Maven\u003c/a> — a U.S. program that uses AI to help drones distinguish between people and objects — following pressure from employees. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SILICONVALLEYUNION-05-BL-KQED-42cdf772.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103634\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SILICONVALLEYUNION-05-BL-KQED-42cdf772.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SILICONVALLEYUNION-05-BL-KQED-42cdf772-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261008-SILICONVALLEYUNION-05-BL-KQED-42cdf772-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alex Samburov, a software engineer at Google, stands at the Google offices in San Francisco on Oct. 8, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s the company culture that attracted me to Google,” Samburov said. “Every day I meet more people who care about these issues, meet people who are willing to risk their employment. Some of them are willing to take a risk despite being immigrants like myself.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Samburov said that workers within Google have the most leverage to change the company. He said that creates an obligation to check how the company uses his labor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We have seen Google demonstrate that the organization doesn’t care about much else. Users don’t really have leverage in this relationship and American voters don’t seem to have much leverage either,” Samburov said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The campaign reached 1,700 signatures last month and has since been formally endorsed by the union. Google declined to make anyone available to comment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But organizing around these political and ethical questions has become more difficult as layoffs make workers feel more vulnerable, Carroll said. Unions can be helpful here, he said, because they can provide the structure, protections and democratic processes to help workers advocate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The workers are the ones building and maintaining the internet, AI, social media and everything in-between, Carroll said, but a lot of decisions are being put on them from the top down. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If we can come together to see a different direction … there’s a lot of power there,” Carroll said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Silicon Valley’s long history of resistance to unions \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The idea of tech workers organizing collectively is still unusual in Silicon Valley. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Alphabet Workers Union, one of the most prominent tech unions, represents \u003ca href=\"https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/faqs\">“over a thousand”\u003c/a> employees out of roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091358/4500-google-employees-demand-job-security-amid-big-tech-layoffs\">190,000\u003c/a> employees and is not yet registered with the National Labor Relations Board. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nationally, just 3.7% of workers in “computer and mathematical occupations” are unionized, compared to 10% of workers across other industries according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat42.htm\">Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10638229\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/GoogleWorkers201207121920-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Google employees walk around campus on Aug. 10, 2015. (David Paul Morris/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Margaret O’Mara, a historian and author of \u003cem>The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America\u003c/em>, said that disparity has deep roots. Silicon Valley companies gave their white-collar workers incentives to negotiate with management directly, rather than at the bargaining table. And at the same time, Silicon Valley companies developed aggressive strategies for keeping their workplaces union-free. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While U.S. union membership \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/labor-unions-and-the-us-economy\">peaked\u003c/a> around 1950 — with over 30% of the American workforce carrying a union card at the time — O’Mara said that the management in the Valley was “pretty strongly anti-union.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“From Hewlett-Packard forward, there was an idea that if you had a union in your company, that was a sign that management was doing it wrong,” O’Mara said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Founded in 1939, Hewlett-Packard pioneered some of the systems that keep tech employees aligned with their management even today, O’Mara said, such as stock options. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While stock options, the ability to buy shares of the company at a reduced price, had long been an option for management, HP opened them up and turned them into “a way to deliver employee benefits that was kind of different from the way a standardized, unionized shop would work,” O’Mara said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The relationship between employers and workers was different on the factory floor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>David Bacon, a former engineering technician and union organizer at National Semiconductor, said that the companies were “laboratories for keeping themselves union-free.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They did this by a number of means,” Bacon said, “for instance, ensuring that the production workforce in the semiconductor plants [was] made up of immigrants and a huge majority of women,” who managers could intimidate because they were more “vulnerable.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bacon also said he and other union organizers were fired and blacklisted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The result was a workplace culture in which unionization could seem unnecessary, or even antithetical to the work, for some and dangerous for others. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carroll said that talking to his coworkers about unionizing today often involves a lot of education. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He often has to explain to them, he said, that “it would be illegal for the companies to retaliate or discriminate against us for [organizing around working conditions].”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The future of AI workers?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As organizers like Carroll, Bernick and Samburov push for unionization, some experts question whether the current wave of AI and political anxiety will translate into meaningful union drives.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lenny Siegel, former mayor of Mountain View and a longtime activist, said that he does not believe AI alone will push tech workers to unionize. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Unless the AI bubble pops, Siegel said he is “not expecting people [in Silicon Valley] to have trouble negotiating individually for bread and butter issues.” Without the need to collectively bargain, unionization is unlikely — especially given the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/trump-says-skilled-foreign-workers-take-jobs-away-from-americans-its-not-that-simple-experts-say\">high concentration\u003c/a> of tech employees on H1B visas who risk losing everything if their company decides to retaliate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1379\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DonaldTrumpGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12066914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DonaldTrumpGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DonaldTrumpGetty1-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DonaldTrumpGetty1-1536x1059.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on Dec. 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The executive order curbs states’ ability to regulate artificial intelligence, something for which the tech industry has been lobbying. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While Siegel does not believe he’ll see software engineers on the picket line anytime soon, he agrees that organizing around political issues will continue.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There have always been progressive tech workers in the Valley,” Siegel said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the ’90s, Siegel belonged to a group called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, which he described as a “collection of tech professionals who got together and effectively, because of their expertise, had an impact on policy.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The group formed in \u003ca href=\"http://cpsr.org/about/history/\">1981\u003c/a> and opposed the use of computing technology for military applications, including the \u003ca href=\"http://cpsr.org/prevsite/publications/newsletters/old/1980s/Fall1986.txt/\">Strategic Computing Initiative,\u003c/a> an early artificial intelligence project funded by the Department of Defense. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While political engagement among techies may not be new, Carroll said building power within the workplace helps give workers the security they need to speak out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We need to feel like our jobs are safe in order to feel comfortable working on and talking about some of these other issues,” Carroll said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For Carroll, the effort to build solidarity with his coworkers and colleagues across the industry has been worth it, even if it moves slowly. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Labor organizing and trying to directly create power against the people at the top that are making a lot of the decisions is one of the most impactful things that we can be doing,” Carroll said.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stanford-university\">Stanford University\u003c/a> senior Billy Ramirez returned to campus this fall to find that the university’s housing and dining department used artificial intelligence to replace him with a Black woman on a public banner. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Stanford Residential and Dining Enterprises, which oversees the university’s housing operations, dining services and campus conferences, hung the promotional banner in a student housing center, according to \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2026/09/23/university-confirms-ai-edited-photo/\">\u003cem>The Stanford Daily\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The outlet also reported that the original photo, taken in Stern Dining during a 2024 Lunar New Year celebration, was previously used unaltered. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An ornate sandstone-colored building with a series of arches sitting on a brick plaza.\" class=\"wp-image-11956028\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED-1536x1014.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED-1920x1267.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The arches of the Main Quadrangle buildings on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto on Oct. 2, 2021. (David Madison/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In addition to replacing Ramirez, Stanford R&DE made significant changes to the other two students’ faces. The edits and use of AI caused a stir on the campus social media app, Fizz, according to the Daily, consequently drawing \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/us/stanford-photo-swap-black-hispanic-student.html\">national attention\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Seeing my identity changed and being left out of the picture made me feel, in a way, silenced and erased from a representation that was supposed to include me,” Ramirez told the \u003ca href=\"https://stanfordreview.org/stanford-r-de-uses-ai-to-race-swap-students-for-advertising/\">\u003cem>Stanford Review\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an independent paper founded by venture capitalist and university alum Peter Thiel. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ramirez’s class was the last cohort admitted to a U.S. college before the Supreme Court gutted \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1181138066/affirmative-action-supreme-court-decision\">affirmative action\u003c/a> in 2023. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-complex-ramifications-of-students-for-fair-admissions-v-harvard/\">Brookings Institute\u003c/a> found that these changes had a sizable impact on the racial profile of college populations across the country.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At Stanford, \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/01/final-enrollment-data-for-class-of-2028-reported-in-common-data-set\">enrollment\u003c/a> for Black or African American students fell from 8.9% to 4.5% and enrollment for Hispanic or Latino students fell from 16.7% to 14.6%. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At the same time, Asian student enrollment increased from 28.8% to 33%, and White student enrollment increased from 21.9% to 24.1%. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Universities have a long history of artificially diversifying models in their marketing. In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/call-action-marketing-and-communications-higher-education/marketing-authenticity-higher\">\u003cem>Inside Higher Ed\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported on a series of incidents, including one at York College of Pennsylvania, where the school used Photoshop to replace two white students “with an African American student and (seemingly) Muslim student.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Stanford AI researcher Maty Bohacek said he found the situation “highly problematic” and explained how AI image editing introduces new problems to an old story. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-STANFORDFILE00607_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12067141\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-STANFORDFILE00607_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-STANFORDFILE00607_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-STANFORDFILE00607_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hoover Tower at Stanford University in Palo Alto on Dec. 10, 2025. 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(David Madison/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In addition to replacing Ramirez, Stanford R&DE made significant changes to the other two students’ faces. 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