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Madrone Art Bar will “double down” on San Francisco artists with a new grant program that arrives at a time when funding for the arts has dwindled. The Madrone Artist Grant will provide $1,500 each to ...

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Anthropic opened its virtual "Briefing: Enterprise Agents" event on Tuesday with a provocation. Kate Jensen, the company's head of Americas, told viewers that the hype around enterprise AI agents in ...

David Jackson, with the African American Business and Contractors Association, protests outside of a St. Louis Development Corporation's event at the Marriott St. Louis Grand hotel on Friday, Oct. 4, ...