Lisa Bonos

San Francisco

Technology

Education: UCLA, BA in English and Jewish studies

Lisa Bonos is a tech culture reporter in San Francisco. Before this, she wrote about dating and relationships for the Features department. She joined The Post in 2005 and previously worked on the Financial, Editorial and Outlook sections.
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Few have tried OpenAI’s Google killer. Here’s what they think.

OpenAI’s search tool shows promise but lacks Google’s specialized functions and can suffer from hallucinations.

September 4, 2024

A new loneliness cure: Apps that match you with strangers for a meal

A bevy of apps are trying to help isolated remote workers and others find new offline friends.

August 19, 2024

Google’s foes on both coasts consider what it takes to crack a monopolist

After a landmark court decision deemed Google an illegal monopoly, its foes are crafting the legal case for something unthinkable until recently: the internet giant’s breakup.

August 15, 2024
Google, deemed an illegal monopoly earlier this month for how it promotes its search function, faces another trial soon over what measures are needed to promote competition, including a possible breakup of the company.

Elon Musk’s embrace of Trump is turning off these Tesla lovers

The entrepreneur’s provocative online posts repel some EV buyers, but he may be winning over some conservatives, analysts and consumers say.

August 10, 2024
Matt Hiller said he came up with his anti-Musk bumper stickers after considering, but then deciding against, buying a Tesla.

Welcome to ‘Snark Tank,’ where Silicon Valley start-ups get roasted

Most young businesses fail. Tech founders get blunt feedback at a comedy show -- and laugh off the challenges standing in their way.

July 28, 2024
Comedian Jesse Fernandez, center, along with a panel of comedians, roasts Anastasia Prosina, left, after she pitches her space start-up at Dandelion Chocolate Factory in San Francisco last month.

As trial looms, Sam Bankman-Fried’s own words may pose his biggest risk

The founder of FTX is accused of bilking customers and investors out of billions of dollars in the 2022 collapse of his cryptocurrency empire.

October 1, 2023
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried appears before the House Committee on Financial Services in December 2021. Within a year, his cryptocurrency empire would collapse.

Meet the student who helped boot the president of Stanford

Theo Baker grew up in a family of high-profile journalists. Now he's having his own success.

July 28, 2023
The Stanford Daily’s Theo Baker interviews Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) after a class on Oct. 24, 2022.

ChatGPT might kill us all ... with dad jokes

San Francisco comedians walk into a bar and tell AI-generated punchlines. Are we laughing with the bots or at them?

June 18, 2023

Montana banned TikTok. Now these Montanans are fighting back.

How a highly politicized social media ban in Big Sky Country sparked a nationwide fight over freedom of speech.

June 8, 2023

They built the digital world. Now they just want to sew and make chairs.

Those who came up in the era of ‘move fast and break things’ are learning to slow down and make things.

May 27, 2023