San Francisco
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A major West Coast intellectual center.
Also, a center of gay culture.
Known for its history of major earthquakes.
Site of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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San Francisco is the only U.S. city to crack that threshold at 44%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
I've come to an industrial space in a tech-heavy area of San Francisco expecting to see a menacing humanoid robot solider doing something combat-like: the future of land-based warfare, perhaps.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Founded in San Francisco in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab by Altman, Elon Musk and others, OpenAI burst into the mainstream with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Another, based out of the University of California, San Francisco health system, found that less than half of patients receive blocks.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2026
In the spring of 1925, when White was still based in Houston, Hoover expressed outrage to him that several agents in the San Francisco field office were drinking liquor.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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