San Jose, Santa Clara, and Morgan Hill Council Returns Take Shape
Early Santa Clara County returns show San Jose Councilmembers Peter Ortiz leading District 5 with 56.8% and Bien Doan leading District…
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Dow Surges Over 1,000 Points as Midterm Results Reshape Congress
The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 1,009 points, or 1.9%, on Wednesday morning and rose 1,178 points, or 2.3%, in early trading…
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San Mateo Tops State at $2.27M Home Price and Passes Measures U & J
The California Association of Realtors’ Q3 2026 report ranked San Mateo County as California’s priciest housing market at a $2.27…
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Wiener Leads Chan and Lurie Charter Measures Pass in San Francisco
State Sen. Scott Wiener led Supervisor Connie Chan 55.4% to 44.6% (with 35% counted) to succeed Rep.
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Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and Rep. Aisha Wahab Win in East Bay Vote
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee won a full 4-year term with 85% of early ballots and nearly 74% support for strong-mayor Measure EE while…
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Democrats Win House and Senate as Talarico, Jackson, and Governors Win
Democrats captured control of both the U.S. House (putting Hakeem Jeffries on track to become the first Black Speaker) and the U.S.
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Mountain View, Menlo Park, and Peninsula Cities Tally 2026 Elections
Peninsula and South Bay voters delivered decisive leads on Tuesday as IdaRose Sylvester (18.99%, 4,528 votes), Silja Paymer (15.66%,…
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San Jose and Santa Clara Tally Council Votes as SEED Act Passes
San Jose Councilmembers Peter Ortiz (56.8%, 4,645 to 3,532) and Bien Doan (62.8%, 5,316 to 3,145) and District 9 newcomer Genny Altwer…
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Bay Area Tops CA Home Prices as Dow Jumps 1,178 Points and CVS Splits
The California Association of Realtors’ Q3 2026 report ranked San Mateo ($2.27 million median price, $578,400 required income, $14,460…
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Oakland Re-Elects Barbara Lee and Passes Measure EE in East Bay Vote
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee won a full 4-year term with 85% of early votes and nearly 74% support for strong-mayor Measure EE while Rep.
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Indonesia Detains 3 Generals in Wiretap Probe as Brazil Passes Law
Indonesian police detained 3 senior police generals—including Presidential Chief of Staff Gen.
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Collins Names ‘Mogging’ 2026 Word of the Year After 210% Surge
Collins Dictionary selected "mogging"—slang meaning to outshine someone—as its 2026 Word of the Year after usage jumped 210% across…
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AP Voter Poll Finds Young and Hispanic Voters Shifting to Democrats
The AP Voter Poll of 80,000 voters across all 50 states (margin of error 0.6 points) found 7 in 10 voters under 30 and 6 in 10…
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Alameda County Sets Vote Schedule as Emeryville Weighs Measure BB
The Alameda County Registrar of Voters outlined its November 3 election night release schedule after 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. plus 5…
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SF One-Bedroom Rent Hits $4,430 as BART Preps for Valkyries Parade
Zumper data shows San Francisco median monthly rent reaching a record $4,430 for a 1-bedroom apartment and topping $6,000 for a…
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Ballistic Ventures Seeks $490M as ILC Dover Pays $13M Cyber Fine
San Francisco cybersecurity venture firm Ballistic Ventures filed to raise $490 million across a $360 million third flagship fund and…
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Citizen Lab Wins IRTF Prize in SF as Europe Counters Cyber Threats
Citizen Lab and Princeton researchers won the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize—to be presented at IETF-127 in San Francisco from…
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TechCrunch Founder Summit Opens as Steam Delays Hit Indie Studios
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 convenes November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station (with doors opening at 9 a.m.
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Polls Close in Key States as Senate Tossups and 2027 Aid Shift Loom
Vote counting began in Indiana and eastern Kentucky on Tuesday ahead of 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m., and 8 p.m.
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Bay Area Voters Weigh Five-County Transit Tax as Turnout Surges
Voters across 5 Bay Area counties are deciding the 14-year Regional Transit Measure to fund more than 20 transit agencies carrying…
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DOJ Sends Four Monitor Teams to Alameda County on Election Day
Alameda County Registrar of Voters Cynthia Cornejo confirmed that 4 U.S.
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CrowdStrike, Cisco, Microsoft, and Google Expand AI Cyber Defense
CrowdStrike signed agreements at Fal.Con Europe to acquire Fiddler AI (reported at $400 million) and Dreadnode (reported at $95…
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U.S. Voters Decide Control of Congress as Polls Open Nationwide
Americans across all 50 states are deciding control of the 120th Congress on Tuesday across all 435 U.S.
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Pleasanton and Dublin Voters Decide Mayoral Races and Tax Measures
Pleasanton and Dublin voters are casting Election Day ballots on Tuesday, November 3, for Pleasanton Mayor (Jack Balch vs.
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Danville Voters Decide Town Council, SRVUSD, and Assembly Races
Danville voters are casting ballots until 8 p.m.
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Voters Decide Prop. 40 Billionaire Tax After $316.7M Campaign War
California voters are deciding Proposition 40—a labor-backed one-time 5% tax on assets above $1 billion held by roughly 200 California…
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Fremont Advances 918 Affordable Homes as Union City Upgrades Roads
Fremont approved 918 affordable apartments across 6 developments opening between fall 2027 and spring 2028 under a 35-day permit…
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San Francisco Voters Elect Pelosi Successor as Bay Area Polls Open
San Francisco voters are electing a successor to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the first time in nearly 4 decades—choosing…
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Polls Show Democrats Ahead in 6 Senate Races as 57M Vote Early
Final New York Times/Siena College polls across seven U.S.
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Commonwealth Meets in Antigua as U.S. Cuts 2 Nations From AGOA
King Charles III and Queen Camilla joined leaders of the 56-nation Commonwealth representing 2.7 billion people in Antigua and Barbuda…
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Livermore Library Hosts India Vet Talk as Hayward Updates Bike Plan
The Livermore Public Library announced a free November 12 Armchair Travelers lecture by veterinarian Randy Lung at the Civic Center…
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Tech Billionaires Spend $140M Against Prop. 40 as Squarespace Cuts 19%
Silicon Valley billionaires led by Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s $103 million contribution poured $140 million into Building a…
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State Agency Rates Oakland Unified at High Insolvency Risk
California’s Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team rated the Oakland Unified School District at high risk of financial…
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Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Set Aside 20,000 California Ballots
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an emergency appeal by Solicitor General D.
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Trump Touts Reflecting Pool Makeover on Eve of Midterm Elections
On the eve of the Nov. 3, 2026 midterm elections, President Donald Trump spoke at the reopened Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in…
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European Freezer Hacks Mirror August Incidents at 6 U.S. Base Stores
Broadcast confirmations from European grocers—including Sweden’s Coop (7 of 800+ stores) and ICA in Sjöbo, Belgium’s Carrefour (15 of…
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Rep. Levin Pushes Bipartisan Bill as 5 States Eye San Onofre Waste
U.S. Rep. Mike Levin—joined by Republican Reps.
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Nearly $200B in Data Centers Stalled as AI Shapes Midterm Debate
Almost $200 billion in U.S. data center projects were delayed, stalled, or blocked in the first half of 2026 amid local political…
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Emery Unified Voters Weigh 5 Candidates for 3 School Board Seats
Emeryville voters will fill 3 seats on the Emery Unified School District Board of Trustees on Tuesday, Nov. 3, choosing among 5…
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Bay Area Beaches Face 17-Foot Surf as SF Rescuers Catch Anchovy Jack
The National Weather Service warned Bay Area beachgoers to avoid Pacific Coast waters through Tuesday evening and again from Thursday…
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Gilroy Council Cancels Proposed $64M Sharks Ice Facility After 7 Years
The Gilroy City Council voted unanimously to terminate negotiations with Sharks Sports & Entertainment for a proposed…
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OpenAI Buys Pierre as Meta Acquires Conductor and Apple Tests Siri
OpenAI announced plans to acquire Git tooling maker Pierre Computer Company, rolled out Images 2.6 animated GIF creation across…
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OpenAI Expands Daybreak Red and Buys Pierre Amid APT29 and CISA Alerts
OpenAI launched Daybreak Red with GPT-5.6 Cyber in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and announced the acquisition of Pierre Computer Company as…
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Anthropic Unveils FlashProve as AI Data Centers Deploy Jet Turbines
Anthropic introduced FlashProve, an open-source cryptographic system for provable AI inference without exposing private model weights,…
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OpenAI Scales Hardware AI as DeepMind and Palantir Post Gains
OpenAI reported a 23-fold increase in hardware team token usage since February alongside GPT-6 Astra collaborations with Chip Ganassi…
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Heimstaden Scales OpenAI Codex as NVIDIA Expands Smart City AI
Residential real estate operator Heimstaden reached 50% employee adoption of ChatGPT Enterprise within 3 months and used OpenAI Codex…
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Anthropic Posts $17B Quarterly Revenue as OpenAI Debuts Pando
Anthropic reported $17 billion in Q3 2026 revenue, a $23.3 billion net loss, and $895.4 billion in compute commitments through 2032…
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OpenAI Debuts LifeVal and Qodo Plugin as Publishers Sue Brave
OpenAI introduced its LifeVal benchmark—built from a survey of 3,995 respondents—to measure ChatGPT’s performance on everyday tasks…
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