In San Francisco, you can see the future first. Leopold Aschenbrenner is right.

From the airport to the hotel, all AI advertisements. Twilio is the AI agent tool I previously wrote to wake you up with calls during crypto price surges and drops.
Hosting the SIGNAL conference in San Francisco, the entire focus was on agents, and the stock price rose 17% that week.
Linear used Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" with the hand of God, paired with "Agents. At your command."
Notion's "Meet the night shift, your 24/7 AI team," describes agents as colleagues working night shifts for you.
And there's Nebius, selling AI computing power (formerly involved in Bitcoin mining, later shifted to computing power).
Google Gemini's Lyft shared bikes by the seaside.
Having breakfast at the hotel in the morning, looking out the window, there's the sign for Judgment Labs.
It's as if the entire city is talking to itself.
Anthropic (Claude's parent company) released an article on June 4th titled "When AI builds itself," saying Claude is now writing over 80% of its own code, and AI agents are starting to train themselves.
The day before, Cloudflare announced that web traffic from robots surpassed humans for the first time, at 57.5% versus 42.5%, and even the CEOs felt it was happening too fast, expecting it to occur only by 2027.
Taking Uber to go out, fully autonomous driving, a 20-minute ride costs only $12, cheaper than in Hong Kong.
Waymo is everywhere on the streets.
It's so AI-driven that, in this environment, you can truly see the future.