Editorial @appliedint. Fmr. @sfchronicle breaking news editor, biz reporter. Prolific retweeter. One day I'll write a book about something.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Joined September 2012
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Silicon Valley software expertise x Japanese engineering excellence. Applied Intuition and @HondaJP are partnering to speed up Honda’s in-house development of a centralized, upgradeable SDV platform. Learn more about how we are working together to transform the automotive industry. appliedintuition.com/blog/ho…
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AI-defined vehicles require transforming more than the software in the car, they require transforming how that software gets built. That’s why we’re excited to partner with @Nissan to support their next-gen SDV and AI-defined vehicle efforts, built on our Vehicle OS. This is how AI-defined vehicles get built from here. appliedintuition.com/blog/ni…
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if email was invented today it would be called something like Zoola or Claire
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They wore black clothes and headlamps and carried shovels. As darkness fell on a spring evening, the two women — once enemies, now allies — worked up the nerve to break onto a neighbor’s property, to see if they could find the graves. Jennifer Raymond and Jenna Moore crawled beneath a dense hedge of blackberries and escallonia, through a passageway Raymond had fashioned with gardening shears. Reaching the fence, they squeezed through a small opening, this one created with wire snippers. Moore’s three children stood nearby as lookouts. Visible in the distance, perhaps a football field away, was the neighbor’s home. Much closer was their destination: a freshly dug hole. It was after 8 p.m. on April 26, in the rural community of Fortuna along Highway 101 in Humboldt County. Raymond, a 75-year-old retiree, and Moore, 46, believed the nonprofit animal sanctuary next door, Miranda’s Rescue, was pocketing transfer fees for dogs from shelters and pet owners around the state, then killing the animals while claiming many had been adopted out. Decades of suspicion of operator Shannon Miranda — who to this day has not been charged with a crime and still operates his shelter — and inaction by local authorities had led the women to conclude their only option was to break the law, consequences be damned. Earlier that day, cameras Moore had hidden along the fence line detected movement in Miranda’s field, pinging her phone with a notification. She opened the live feed and watched as Miranda drove a red tractor. Looking closer, she saw what appeared to be dog carcasses in the front bucket, partially obscured by straw but bouncing with each bump. Moore phoned Raymond: “He’s burying dogs right now!” Hours later, as the women pressed through the fence and into the field, they felt scared but resolute. “If I get a criminal record for trespassing for saving animals’ lives,” Raymond would say later, “then so be it." Sliding into the deep pit, they began digging. Read the full story here: sfchronicle.com/projects/202…
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Shwanika Narayan retweeted
Breaking News: Scientists have used A.I. to create new viruses for the first time, raising hopes for medical advances while also raising the possibility that the technology could someday be used to invent dangerous pathogens. nyti.ms/4bxx7Wy
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Shwanika Narayan retweeted
🚨 For the last three months I investigated Miranda’s Rescue, the site of a mass dog grave in Northern California. I uncovered decades of turning a blind eye to serious animal welfare concerns. Here’s the first story: 🚨 sfchronicle.com/projects/202…
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This may be unpopular, but we never escaped the 2008 financial crisis. We just shifted the pain.
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When I snapped the photo, it looked like many meetings I covered before: neighbors packed into a San Francisco warehouse to oppose a large project. The photo went extremely viral—becoming latest flashpoint in generational clash over housing. @sfchronicle shorturl.at/Xr7fR
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Many companies stopped hiring entry-level employees, thinking AI agents could pick up the slack. They have since realized that humans are necessary to work alongside AI. on.wsj.com/4yOHXSb
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here’s a story about the “open vs closed” debate over the past few weeks in the tech industry and how, depending on who you ask, the global economy and national security could be at stake w/ @kateconger @AnaSwanson and meaghan tobin nytimes.com/2026/07/25/techn…
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Silicon Valley and Washington are debating a multibillion-dollar question: Should American companies be able to use Chinese artificial-intelligence models? on.wsj.com/4ptRR7k
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Shwanika Narayan retweeted
Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines, has released its first AI model – and it’s open weights. It's a bid to contribute to a decentralized AI ecosystem to counter the frontier labs, whose models Thinking Machines has compared to "central planning." w/ @berber_jin1 wsj.com/tech/ai/mira-muratis… via @WSJ
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Shwanika Narayan retweeted
If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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"For the first time in 102 years, news production will end at 901 Mission. The Chronicle is moving to a high-rise at 450 Sansome St. for at least six years, maybe forever, while a structure adjoining the 901 Mission newsroom is demolished and a condo project rises"@peterhartlaub
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