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It will enable us to raise the necessary capital with conventional terms like others in this space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a controversial deal, and the subject of at least one lawsuit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/technology/elon-musk-openai-profit-lawsuit.html\">from Elon Musk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fred Blackwell, CEO of the San Francisco Foundation, said he just wants OpenAI to follow through on its original promise to benefit humanity. “We are not opposed to any conversion of nonprofit to for-profit. Nor are we wagging our fingers around the good or bad of AI,” said Blackwell, who heads one of the largest community foundations in the country. “We really just want to make sure that the assets are properly accounted for in this conversion. And that it’s an independent entity that comes out the other end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12034490 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PadillaMentalHealthCaucus-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the letter, an Open AI spokesman wrote, “Our Board has been very clear that we intend to strengthen the non-profit so that it can deliver on its mission for the long term. We’re not selling it, we’re doubling down on its work. 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More recently, OpenAI has increased spending on \u003ca href=\"https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/21/1110260/openai-ups-its-lobbying-efforts-nearly-seven-fold/\">lobbying Congress sevenfold \u003c/a>and, for the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/09/california-ai-safety-regulations-bills/\">first time, hired lobbyists\u003c/a> to oppose bills to regulate AI in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state bill (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB501\">AB 501\u003c/a>) that would have blocked the conversion has been amended to focus on aircraft liens instead. “In the process of developing the legislation and doing the due diligence, it was determined that due to the complexity of the policy, additional time and resources to vet it and gather input were necessary,” David Burruto, district director for Assemblymember Diane Papan (D-San Mateo), wrote KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to smell lobbyists behind the scene trying to cut it down in some way or another,” said Gary Marcus, a leading AI expert, who testified to the Senate sitting next to Altman. He’s also written a blog post \u003ca href=\"https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-bill-that-would-have-blocked?r=8tdk6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true\">objecting\u003c/a> to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/california-bill-barring-openai-for-profit-transition-dead/article_27250d39-7577-47cc-a414-a7b13e5f6ce0.html\">gut-and-amend\u003c/a> of AB 501. “He said he was for regulation. And then, OpenAI has been lobbying behind the scenes against many regulations. So there’s a long history of this company making promises that I don’t think really have anything to do with reality. I’m not sure they ever meant them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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That’s saddening to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia blames C.AI for her son’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., co-founder of the bipartisan \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/mhc/\">Senate Mental Health Caucus\u003c/a>, and Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., sent letters to the CEOs of the companies behind C.AI and two other leading AI chatbots, Chai and Replika, urging them to do more to ensure their products do not contribute to self-harm or suicide among young users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a couple of the companies recently announced new safety features, Padilla and Welch insist the reliability of these systems is unclear. That’s even though surveys show teens are looking to AI for answers about their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/64014/teens-are-looking-to-ai-for-answers-about-their-personal-lives-not-just-homework-help\">personal lives\u003c/a>, not just help with homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The synthetic attention users receive from these chatbots (e.g., streams of expressive messages, sycophantic and agreeable responses, AI-generated selfies, and convincing voice calls) can, and has already, led to dangerous levels of attachment and unearned trust,” the senators wrote in the letters to \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/AI-Chatbot-Safety-Character-Technologies.pdf\">Character Technologies\u003c/a> of Menlo Park, \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/AI-Chatbot-Safety-Chai.pdf\">Chai Research\u003c/a> of Palo Alto, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/AI-Chatbot-Safety-Replika.pdf\">Luka\u003c/a> of San Francisco.[aside postID=science_1996504 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/03/IMG_0962-1020x765.jpg']“Policymakers, parents, and their kids deserve to know what your companies are doing to protect users from these known risks,” the senators wrote, “given that young people are accessing your products — where the average user spends approximately 60–90 minutes per day interacting with these AI chatbots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AI companionship apps tend to be more permissive than better-known general apps like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. That’s because companionship app users are often looking to engage with them as sexual and/or romantic partners. On the Character.AI \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterAI/\">subreddit\u003c/a>, it doesn’t take a long search to find questions like: “How many of you here use character.ai for loneliness? I’ve had no friends or social life for about 10 years and rarely leave my house, character.ai has really helped me feel a little bit better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Character.AI, users can create their own chatbots and give them directions about how they should act. They can also select from chatbots created by others that mimic historical figures and celebrities. The Florida teen, for instance, used a bot mimicking the “Game of Thrones” character \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbuBfizSnPk\">Daenerys Targaryen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“AI companions are kind of a sleeper issue for a lot of Americans,” said Danny Weiss, the chief advocacy officer for Common Sense Media. “Many parents don’t even know that their kids might be developing relationships with machines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chelsea Harrison, head of communications at Character.AI, told KQED that the company welcomes working with regulators and lawmakers and has been in contact with Padilla’s and Welch’s offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the past year, we’ve rolled out many safety features on the platform, including \u003ca href=\"https://blog.character.ai/introducing-parental-insights-enhanced-safety-for-teens/\">Parental Insights\u003c/a>, which provides parents and guardians access to a summary of their teen’s activity on the platform,” Harrison wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison added that the company serves a separate experience to teenagers “that is designed to further reduce the likelihood of users encountering, or prompting the model to return, sensitive or suggestive content.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s unlikely Democratic lawmakers will be able to move the Republican-led Congress to regulate AI, Weiss applauded Padilla and Welch for drawing attention to the issue and noted the dozens of AI-related bills introduced in Sacramento have a greater chance of making it into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, there are no guardrails on artificial intelligence companions,” Weiss said. “That is ridiculous. This technology is amazingly powerful. It’s seductive. It’s exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, in partnership with Common Sense, introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1064\">AB 1064\u003c/a>, which would establish a standards board to assess and regulate AI technologies used by children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB243\">Senate Bill 243\u003c/a>, introduced by Sen. Steve Padilla, D-San Diego, will be heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee this Tuesday. The measure, which Common Sense also supports, would require chatbot operators to implement critical safeguards to protect users from the addictive, isolating and influential aspects of AI chatbots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the hearing, Padilla will promote the bill with a press conference, where he’ll be joined by the bereft Florida mother, Megan Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To help a young person who may be struggling with depression or anxiety, dial 988 to reach the national Suicide and Crisis Lifeline\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Silicon Valley billionaires \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017551/is-san-francisco-a-bellwether-for-cryptocurrency-influence-on-local-elections\">poured millions of dollars\u003c/a> into San Francisco elections in November to increase policing, consolidate mayoral power and shift the city to the center politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bets paid off — for some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> tapped OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, cryptocurrency CEO Chris Larsen and other business leaders to help lure major companies and their employees back to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move is a boon for private sector leaders, who now have a direct line to City Hall, and comes as San Francisco’s economy struggles to rebound from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several billionaires shaping San Francisco are also working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a>. The money flowing into local politics has deepened fractures among San Francisco Democratic leaders, mirroring the national Democratic Party’s struggle to unite behind a single strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco should be leading the resistance and opposition to Donald Trump, but we’re seeing how big money in San Francisco has kind of neutered the city. It has neutralized us on issues,” said Peter Gallotta, a member of San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee. “We’re struggling now with an identity crisis of ‘who are we?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030646\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at the opening of the new OpenAI headquarters in Mission Bay in San Francisco on March 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The identity crisis was palpable shortly after Trump’s inauguration when Gallotta proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/143yCoEPWOXYbmCVtUrH7K2GSLncG_ebm/view\">resolution condemning tech titans\u003c/a> who supported Democrats in San Francisco while cozying up to Republicans in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallotta, a DCCC member since 2017, sought to spotlight figures like Larsen, who contributed more than $1 million to moderate Democratic candidates in San Francisco’s November election, campaign finance records show. Ripple, the cryptocurrency company Larsen co-founded and chairs, donated $5 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum donated $250,000 to a PAC supporting Lurie for mayor and $5.1 million to Trump’s campaign. Venture capitalist William Oberndorf, co-founder of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, a moderate organizing group, spent over $1 million on San Francisco elections in 2024, primarily backing mayoral candidate Mark Farrell. Oberndorf also contributed $100,000 to Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund, according to Federal Election Commission data.[aside postID=news_12023569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240108-LurieInaugurationDay-34_qed-1020x680.jpg']Altman, who contributed $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014714/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-openai-founder-transition-team\">a key advisor\u003c/a> on Lurie’s City Hall transition team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats really need to point to how this money is already influencing the policies of the Trump administration, and also just how big money continues to influence our political system here in California and in San Francisco,” Gallotta, one of the remaining progressives on the DCCC after moderates took over the majority in 2024, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallotta’s resolution passed, but several members pushed back against language that called out leaders in tech, one of the city’s biggest industries for tax revenue. Nancy Tung, chair of the DCCC, voted against the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it was an indictment on the amount of money that gets spent in our political elections in San Francisco, then it was really one-sided,” Tung told KQED, pointing to money spent by organized labor on local races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s spending power often outweighs that of organized labor, said Jane Kim, a member of the DCCC and director of the California Working Families Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Billionaire wealth will vastly outpower labor’s ability to give,” she said. “What we see is an unfortunate imbalance of who gets influence in government today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11656798\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim at a mayoral debate on March 19, 2018. Kim is a member of the DCCC and director of the California Working Families Party. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others wanted to dilute Galotta’s resolution to rebuke Trump rather than his donors who are influencing San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we need to perpetuate is a united voice opposing Donald Trump, not having the same old tired fights,” DCCC member Trevor Chandler said during January’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DCCC later voted to create a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PuX1yWyVLI10gegryZPmnNZ_kzd6DN13/view\">separate resolution\u003c/a> based on Chandler’s proposal to denounce Trump’s agenda targeting the city’s sanctuary status, transgender rights and other issues. It passed in February after additional infighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The resistance against Trump this time around is really going to be in the courts again,” Tung said. “I understand that people are very frustrated, and they want to be demonstrating in the streets, but it’s exhausting to do that.”[aside postID=news_12017551 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-2162428471-1020x680.jpg']Democrats in Washington are struggling to find a strategy for countering Trump. Their disagreements came to a head this month when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was one of 10 Democrats to vote for a Republican spending bill aimed at delaying a government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I myself don’t give away anything for nothing,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi told reporters in a dig at Schumer after the bill passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As representatives in Washington splinter over government funding, San Francisco faces its own nearly $1 billion budget deficit. Kim, a former San Francisco supervisor, compared agitation among San Francisco Democrats to intraparty fights at the national level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see a lot of the same advisors and donors for both Lurie’s administration and the Trump administration, and the fact that he hasn’t spoken for that is disappointing,” Kim said. “Clearly, they’re very different in terms of the goals that they have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they have a similar approach to government — that you don’t need any government experience in order to lead and that hiring the wealthiest people with private sector experience is going to fix the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, who had no prior elected experience before becoming mayor, broke the city’s record for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">most expensive mayoral campaign in history\u003c/a>, the majority coming from his own wealth as an heir of the Levi Strauss fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members attend Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s inauguration ceremony at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015128/sfs-next-mayor-wants-city-lean-into-ai-stay-out-regulating\">boosted the city as an artificial intelligence hub\u003c/a>. Accompanied by a live pianist, Lurie recently promised tech workers at the new Mission Bay headquarters of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company and maker of ChatGPT, that San Francisco’s reputation as the tech capital of the world would soon rise again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OpenAI is leading our city’s latest tech resurgence,” he said. “My administration will ensure that our city is a place where companies can succeed and a place where your employees are proud to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">remained quiet on Trump\u003c/a> and his relationship with Altman, Elon Musk, David Sachs and other Silicon Valley billionaires. Instead, City Attorney David Chiu and city supervisors have led resistance to Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ rights, immigrants and public funding as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-democrats-constituents-resistance-20207038.php\">Bay Area residents\u003c/a> increasingly demand Democratic representatives in Washington press harder against executive orders from the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daniel Lurie is the poster child of our politics becoming an oligarchy. But he didn’t pass Citizens United — he exploited it. And we need to give him a chance,” said political consultant Eric Jaye, referring to the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in \u003cem>Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission\u003c/em>, which allowed wealthy people and corporations to spend unlimited money on elections. “This country has been sliding away from a vigorous democracy. You can buy elections now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without campaign finance reform, private interests will continue to wield and consolidate power locally and nationally, Jaye said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The richest people in the world want to control the San Francisco government, and they are spending virtually unlimited amounts of money in an attempt to do so,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several billionaires shaping San Francisco are also working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a>. The money flowing into local politics has deepened fractures among San Francisco Democratic leaders, mirroring the national Democratic Party’s struggle to unite behind a single strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco should be leading the resistance and opposition to Donald Trump, but we’re seeing how big money in San Francisco has kind of neutered the city. It has neutralized us on issues,” said Peter Gallotta, a member of San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee. “We’re struggling now with an identity crisis of ‘who are we?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030646\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at the opening of the new OpenAI headquarters in Mission Bay in San Francisco on March 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The identity crisis was palpable shortly after Trump’s inauguration when Gallotta proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/143yCoEPWOXYbmCVtUrH7K2GSLncG_ebm/view\">resolution condemning tech titans\u003c/a> who supported Democrats in San Francisco while cozying up to Republicans in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallotta, a DCCC member since 2017, sought to spotlight figures like Larsen, who contributed more than $1 million to moderate Democratic candidates in San Francisco’s November election, campaign finance records show. Ripple, the cryptocurrency company Larsen co-founded and chairs, donated $5 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum donated $250,000 to a PAC supporting Lurie for mayor and $5.1 million to Trump’s campaign. Venture capitalist William Oberndorf, co-founder of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, a moderate organizing group, spent over $1 million on San Francisco elections in 2024, primarily backing mayoral candidate Mark Farrell. Oberndorf also contributed $100,000 to Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund, according to Federal Election Commission data.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Altman, who contributed $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014714/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-openai-founder-transition-team\">a key advisor\u003c/a> on Lurie’s City Hall transition team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats really need to point to how this money is already influencing the policies of the Trump administration, and also just how big money continues to influence our political system here in California and in San Francisco,” Gallotta, one of the remaining progressives on the DCCC after moderates took over the majority in 2024, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallotta’s resolution passed, but several members pushed back against language that called out leaders in tech, one of the city’s biggest industries for tax revenue. Nancy Tung, chair of the DCCC, voted against the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it was an indictment on the amount of money that gets spent in our political elections in San Francisco, then it was really one-sided,” Tung told KQED, pointing to money spent by organized labor on local races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s spending power often outweighs that of organized labor, said Jane Kim, a member of the DCCC and director of the California Working Families Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Billionaire wealth will vastly outpower labor’s ability to give,” she said. “What we see is an unfortunate imbalance of who gets influence in government today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11656798\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim at a mayoral debate on March 19, 2018. Kim is a member of the DCCC and director of the California Working Families Party. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others wanted to dilute Galotta’s resolution to rebuke Trump rather than his donors who are influencing San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we need to perpetuate is a united voice opposing Donald Trump, not having the same old tired fights,” DCCC member Trevor Chandler said during January’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DCCC later voted to create a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PuX1yWyVLI10gegryZPmnNZ_kzd6DN13/view\">separate resolution\u003c/a> based on Chandler’s proposal to denounce Trump’s agenda targeting the city’s sanctuary status, transgender rights and other issues. It passed in February after additional infighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The resistance against Trump this time around is really going to be in the courts again,” Tung said. “I understand that people are very frustrated, and they want to be demonstrating in the streets, but it’s exhausting to do that.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Democrats in Washington are struggling to find a strategy for countering Trump. Their disagreements came to a head this month when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was one of 10 Democrats to vote for a Republican spending bill aimed at delaying a government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I myself don’t give away anything for nothing,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi told reporters in a dig at Schumer after the bill passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As representatives in Washington splinter over government funding, San Francisco faces its own nearly $1 billion budget deficit. Kim, a former San Francisco supervisor, compared agitation among San Francisco Democrats to intraparty fights at the national level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see a lot of the same advisors and donors for both Lurie’s administration and the Trump administration, and the fact that he hasn’t spoken for that is disappointing,” Kim said. “Clearly, they’re very different in terms of the goals that they have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they have a similar approach to government — that you don’t need any government experience in order to lead and that hiring the wealthiest people with private sector experience is going to fix the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, who had no prior elected experience before becoming mayor, broke the city’s record for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">most expensive mayoral campaign in history\u003c/a>, the majority coming from his own wealth as an heir of the Levi Strauss fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members attend Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s inauguration ceremony at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015128/sfs-next-mayor-wants-city-lean-into-ai-stay-out-regulating\">boosted the city as an artificial intelligence hub\u003c/a>. 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The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner certified the cause and manner as a suicide, but a full autopsy has not yet been released, a spokesperson told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His parents, however, believe there has been foul play, and they are calling for a federal investigation. “Our best interest is to have the FBI give us an unbiased investigation,” Ramarao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent days, Ramarao and Ramamurthy have been on calls and video chats with media from around the world at all hours, in an effort to get their son’s story into the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020380\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-BalajiDeathOpenAI-08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hands of Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, parents of Suchir Balaji, hold a photo of their son at their home in Union City on Jan. 5, 2024. 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Damages can be tripled “when infringement is willful, meaning done intentionally or with reckless disregard for the law, which incriminating emails would show,” said Colleen Chien, a professor and co-director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Law and Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014714 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-29-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because the legal question of whether or not using copyright works for training AI is unsettled, “unsavory facts” such as emails or documentation of conversations “could color not only public opinion but also the development of the law,” Chien said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Balaji’s death, OpenAI referred KQED to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/1872312018994352636\">a statement released on social media platform X\u003c/a>, saying they were “devastated to learn of this tragic news” and have been in touch with Balaji’s family to offer their full support. “We respect his, and others’, right to share views freely,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Ramarao and Ramamurthy, everywhere in the Bay Area reminds them of their son, from the trails of Coyote Creek, where they hiked to the science museums they took him to as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst part is because of the fight for justice, we can’t even grieve,” Ramarao said. “I feel like part of me is missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family is planning a vigil in front of the San Francisco medical examiner’s office on Jan. 19 at 11 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes discussion of suicide. 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In some cases, the little authentic engagement their posts got was from users calling them out as fake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These operations may be using new technology, but they’re still struggling with the old problem of how to get people to fall for it,” said Ben Nimmo, principal investigator on OpenAI’s intelligence and investigations team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That echoes Facebook owner Meta’s \u003ca href=\"https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.8562-6/445235204_402858536059630_7403303878106178024_n.pdf?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=b8d81d&_nc_ohc=rLBTJHhbAdkQ7kNvgHJT95G&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AYCX-M6MawEAAaBIxVvn69EvhyDvrhIEgYPgGBk9I0B1QA&oe=665DC5BF\">quarterly threat report\u003c/a> published on Wednesday. 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