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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Io Dodds

Not bad for a hellhole: How a flood of AI money is making San Francisco buzz again — despite Donald Trump

“A war zone,” President Donald Trump has called it. “A drug-zombie apocalypse," was Elon Musk's verdict. One Fox News columnist dubbed it "a rancid drug-ravaged pit of human misery.”

But to Peter Quartaroli, who manages the 158-year-old Sam's Grill and Seafood Restaurant in downtown San Francisco, it's just the neighborhood — and one that's steadily improving.

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