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Executive Briefing: You Are Paying for Agent Activity and Calling It Work

What 1,200 experimental agents, a $21 million startup, and one missing advertising account reveal about the hardest part of putting agents to work.

The Graying Bay

This San Francisco Chronicle series explores the aging Bay Area, the demographic data and how it will impact every aspect of our lives.

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.

Iceland Rejects Talks on EU Entry

‘No’ vote prevails in knife-edge referendum prompted by Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland

Our Agents, Ourselves

Plus: Turning your best colleagues into reusable skills, the model built to fix AI writing, and math proofs that outran their authors

Moulton says Sen. Markey, 80, is too old for another term. Young Massachusetts Democrats are divided

BOSTON — In a race that has centered on whether Ed Markey , 80, is too old for another U.S. Senate term, the Massachusetts Democrat’s answer to a recent debate question was especially striking.

Governing Agentic Swarms

Grim new details from the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack | Edition #318

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

I'm an S.F. Chronicle meteorologist. Here's my favorite weather app

MacBeth and Michael Horvath look at their app, Foggy, at Ocean Beach on Tuesday. The app incorporates users’ real-time reports.

Burning Man's crowd is getting older

Attendees gather to watch the burning of "The Chapel of Babel," a work of art by Michael Burlington, during the annual Burning Man Festival in the early morning of September 5, 2023. Thousands of revelers stuck in the mud for days at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada were told they could finally trek home on September 4, 2023, after torrential rain had prompted shelter-in-place orders. With the sun shining on the colorful makeshift community of 70,000 people called Black Rock City, the roads opened Monday afternoon, kicking off the official exit process known as the "Exodus."

There’s a Powerful Third Wheel in S.F.’s Heated House Race: Nancy Pelosi

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi speaks at a the Get Out the Vote rally in San Francisco on May 29, 2026 in support of Supervisor Connie Chan. Pelosi has endorsed Chan’s bid to replace her in Congress.

Hospital rooms make it hard to sleep. Sutter, Kaiser and UCSF are trying to change that

Dr. Richard Milani, right, Sutter Health’s chief clinical innovation officer, and Chris Waugh, its chief design and innovation officer, discuss features designed to support patients’ circadian rhythms and improve sleep during hospital stays at the Sutter Health Innovation Center in San Francisco on Aug. 10.