Emily Shugerman

The inside story of how the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative lost its way (including Priscilla's response to the inauguration, secretly taped meetings, and interviews with a dozen+ insiders) sfstandard.com/2025/06/09/cha…

@jeffbercovici i got the surgery just because i was so sick of you heightmogging me all the time

@eshugerman thank god, didn't wanna say anything before but it was kind of embarrassing to the rest of us how short you were

i am back at work (part time) and an inch and a half taller than when i left! reach out if you're in sf and want to talk wealth + power or hear about my new spine

@teddyschleifer thank you!!

@eshugerman glad you're ok!

I spent the last few months talking to people around The Giving Pledge about a bygone era of philanthropy. There is an attack campaign against the Pledge led by none other than Peter Thiel. My reported essay for NYT Sunday Business is out today.

Some good news news... The Lenfest Institute is giving @sfstandard $150K grant as part of its ongoing AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program. niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-sa…

For @RollingStone, I spoke with women who were digitally “undressed” by users on X using Grok.

not that anyone checks this app anymore but I will be off for the next couple months recovering from spine surgery. pls save tips + story ideas for when I get back in March!

Gavin Newsom worries AI will make it impossible for your kids to find a job (Plus, 4 other takeaways from the governor’s conversation on our podcast “Pacific Standard Time.”) sfstandard.com/pacific-standa…

a clearly AI-generated statement about AI policy… you love to see it

Stop AI was one of the Bay Area’s most visible AI protest groups. Then its cofounder went missing. My look inside the disappearance of Sam Kirchner, and what it says about the anti-AI movement: sfstandard.com/2025/12/11/sam…

The mother of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji filed paperwork this week for a CA ballot initiative aimed at overturning OpenAI's for-profit transition sfstandard.com/2025/12/03/ope…

helen leagues ahead of the news cycle as always 👑

SCOOP — A new super PAC is afoot, funded by some people in the AI industry, to challenge the first super PAC from Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI executives. $50 million is being raised, likely from Anthropic execs and AI safety advocates, to fight back. nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/…

new from your boy gq.com/story/an-ambit…

from @eshugerman Nvidia CEO makes major donation to SF Opera, boosting arts in the AI age sfstandard.com/2025/11/20/jen…

New details: The gifts will continue for at least three years -- maybe longer -- and put the Huangs in the top tier of opera donors, with just a handful of other families

Exclu: Jensen Huang is making a multi-year, multi-million-dollar donation to the SF Opera. It's the Nvidia CEO's second major donation to the arts in San Francisco this year sfstandard.com/2025/11/20/jen…

Connie Chan is running to succeed Nancy Pelosi in Congress. “This is an unprecedented time,” Chan said. “The very people that need our protection are being attacked by the government.” More from me, @ggreschler and @Josh_Koehn: sfstandard.com/2025/11/20/con…

mom can you come pick me up? the billboards are fighting over the value of human beings

This lead from @eshugerman, good lord...