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SF Mayor Lurie to tech CEOs: ‘How can we get you back?’


San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to bring his city back to its glory days. And he's convinced tech leaders — who often pitch utopian ideals of their

This week, he rolled back a longstanding program in which San Francisco handed out free pipes, foil, and straws that were used to ingest drugs, such as fentanyl. The city recently unveiled a new initiative, Permit SF, which would reduce the amount of red tape that startups must wade through to operate in San Francisco. While much of the tech industry’s innovation has historically happened in Silicon Valley, about 40 miles south of the city, the AI boom seems firmly centered in San Francisco.

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