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Elim Chan Becomes First Female Music Director of San Francisco Symphony

By: Adam Nagourney
Elim Chan has been named the symphony’s next music director. She joins a small field of female conductors at American orchestras, as San Francisco rebuilds after Esa-Pekka Salonen.

“When it happened, I was like, ‘Oh my God — it’s time,’” the conductor Elim Chan said of her appointment in San Francisco. “It is groundbreaking. It’s another ceiling broken.”

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Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO

The device burned an exterior gate of the house in San Francisco, the police said, and it was unclear whether the artificial intelligence executive was home. The authorities arrested a suspect.

It was unclear whether Sam Altman was home at the time of the attack.

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What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality

By: Kashmir Hill and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?

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Not All National Parks Remain Open in the Shutdown. Here’s What to Know.

By: Chris Hippensteel
Some underground attractions are closed, and many outdoor sites have reduced their services.

Grand Canyon National Park will remain open to the public during the shutdown.

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How Skateboarders Helped Rebuild San Francisco’s U.N. Plaza

By: Conor Dougherty and Loren Elliott
Made quickly and with minimal fuss, a park for skateboarders revived a downtown site — and offered a few lessons for urban revitalization.

U.N. Plaza in San Francisco was redesigned around a simple skate park.

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About 10,000 Hotel Workers Walk Off the Job on Labor Day Weekend

By: Sydney Ember
The union representing the workers, UNITE HERE, has planned a rolling strike for several days in cities like Boston, San Francisco and Seattle after contract negotiations stalled.

Employees of the Hilton Boston Logan Airport were among the roughly 10,000 hotel workers represented by UNITE HERE who went on strike Sunday.

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And the Winner Is … the Slowest!

By: Cara Buckley
Cargo ships off California are reducing speeds as part of an unusual race designed to protect some very large local residents.

A humpback whale in the Santa Barbara Channel, off the coast of California, last year.

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Wait, We’ve Been Flying the Flag the Alitos Had? San Francisco Takes It Down.

By: Heather Knight
Critics slammed Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. after the “Appeal to Heaven” flag was flown outside his vacation home, but it had billowed in the heart of San Francisco for 60 years.
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Sam Altman Is Said to Be Discussing Return to OpenAI With Company’s Board

By: Cade Metz, Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith
Mr. Altman was forced out of the artificial intelligence start-up on Friday, leading to an outcry from his supporters and the company’s investors.

The new talks between Sam Altman and OpenAI’s board were the latest twist in a fast-moving drama at what is perhaps the world’s highest-profile artificial intelligence company.

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Remembering Senator Dianne Feinstein: ‘She Showed the Way’

By: Heather Knight
Women dominated the stage at a memorial on Thursday for Ms. Feinstein, who broke barriers, over and over.

The memorial for Dianne Feinstein was by turns a celebration of her political efforts, a deeply personal remembrance by her granddaughter, and a testament to her love of all things San Francisco.

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