Artificial Intelligence
Silicon Valley Office Recovery Deepens in 2Q26 as Vacancy Falls to 15.2% and Leasing Hits Seven-Year High
The Silicon Valley office market posted its seventh straight quarter of positive net absorption in the second quarter of 2026, with vacancy tightening,...
Robotics Startup Dexmate Signs 36,000 SQFT Direct Lease at 3347 Gateway in Fremont
Dexmate has committed to nearly 36,500 square feet at 3347 Gateway in Fremont, a direct lease that adds to a wave of robotics...
Silicon Valley R&D Vacancy Falls to 12.6% in 2Q26 as Nvidia Breaks Ground and AI Hardware Powers Leasing
Silicon Valley's research-and-development market tightened in the second quarter of 2026 as vacancy fell, net absorption improved and a new Nvidia campus broke...
Bay Area Defends No. 1 Tech Talent Rank as AI Absorbs 57% of Its Job Postings
The San Francisco Bay Area again topped CBRE's annual tech talent scorecard even as its overall workforce shrank, with artificial intelligence now driving...
AI Chipmaker SambaNova Systems Subleases 37,000 SQFT at 2460 N. First Street in North San Jose
SambaNova Systems, the AI hardware developer, has picked up nearly 37,000 square feet of sublet space in North San Jose, one of dozens...
Bay Area AI and Robotics Funding Tops $280B in 2026 as Sector Drives Record Silicon Valley Leasing
Bay Area artificial intelligence and robotics companies raised more than $280 billion through the first half of 2026, and that capital is spilling...
Northern California Sidelined in Data Center Boom as Power Limits Push Capacity to Texas
Northern California, the birthplace of Silicon Valley, now holds barely 1 gigawatt of data center capacity and does not rank among North America's...
AI Now Fills 10% of San Francisco Office Supply as Bay Area Job Postings Jump 45%
JLL research lead Alexander Quinn says Bay Area office-job demand and San Francisco AI leasing are both climbing sharply, cutting against fears that...
PG&E Chases 12.7 GW of AI Data Center Demand as Texas Fights to Pull It Away
A century-old utility built to sell less electricity has stood up an economic-development team to court AI data centers, but the contest now...
San Francisco Office Demand Hits Highest Level Since 2019 as AI Drives 42% of 2026 Leasing
San Francisco's office market logged its fourth straight quarter of positive absorption at midyear 2026, as a revival of large space requirements, an...
Bay Area Venture Funding Surges to $100B in Q2 2026, Powered by Anthropic’s $65B AI Round
The nine-county Bay Area drew $100.2 billion in venture capital across 861 deals in the second quarter of 2026, with San Francisco alone...
Brokers Turn to Autonomous AI Agents to Automate Rent Comp Tracking
Commercial real estate brokers are increasingly handing rote market research to autonomous AI agents that assemble proprietary comp databases and monitor rival properties...
