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What to know about New York unseats San Francisco as the top market for tech talent, CBRE reports

A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick.

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A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick.

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Claim 1: “and have accounted for 30% of leasing activity, totaling about 10 million square feet, since 2023, according to CBRE.”
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Claim 2: “In Canada, there is greater concentration of AI employment, with 60% of those jobs based in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.”
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Claim 3: “As of June, there were 751,000 AI-related workers across the two countries, the report found.”
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The specific figure of 751,000 AI-related workers is mentioned in the Metaintro source, but the other provided web results for this claim are irrelevant (PoliceOne Academy), leaving only one relevant source.
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web search NEUTRAL — Sep 9, 2011 · Police1 Academy is the largest online training video library for law enforcement officers, and the first of its kind. With more than 400 videos in more than 50 categories, Police1 Academ…
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web search NEUTRAL — Operational Management Software helps law enforcement agencies streamline workflows, allocate resources, and monitor performance across daily operations. This topic covers tools for scheduling, case m…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 5, 2024 · Improve the safety and effectiveness of your department and personnel with an online training solution from PoliceOne Academy, brought to you by Lexipol, the nation’s leading content, po…
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Claim 4: “In addition to San Francisco, AI leasing activity is concentrated most in Manhattan, Boston and Seattle, according to CBRE.”
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Claim 5: “While New York leads in overall tech talent, San Francisco still leads in AI, specifically.”
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While some sources mention the overall tech talent lead, no provided evidence explicitly confirms that San Francisco still leads in AI-specific workers over New York.
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Claim 6: “New York's 394,300 tech talent jobs edged out the San Francisco Bay Area's 375,730 jobs, CBRE found.”
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The specific numbers (394,300 for New York and 375,730 for the Bay Area) are consistently reported across multiple sources citing the CBRE analysis.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The San Francisco Firebells are a professional women's baseball team for San Francisco competing in the Women's Pro Baseball League (WPBL). The team is named for historical volunteer firefighter Lilli…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of current and former companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, broken down by type of business. Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses. As of 2020, 38 Fortune 500 compa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth-most populous city in California and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with a population of 826,079 in 2025. Am…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco
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Claim 7: “It's the first time New York has taken the lead in the 13 years of this analysis.”
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Multiple sources confirm that this is the first time in 13 years of the CBRE analysis that New York has taken the lead.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, commonly known as BNY or by its prior brand name BNY Mellon, is an American international financial services company headquartered in New York City. BNY was es…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States. It is located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York metropolitan area, also called the Tri-State area and sometimes referred to as Greater New York or Metro New York, is the largest metropolitan economy in the world, with a gross metropoli…
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Claim 8: “In San Francisco, AI companies made up 58% of all leasing in the first half of this year”
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Claim 9: “For the first time, New York's office market is home to the most tech workers, thanks in large part to AI, according to a new report from CBRE.”
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Multiple independent sources (CNBC, Newsmax, WordUp News) report that New York has overtaken the San Francisco Bay Area as the top market for tech workers according to a CBRE report.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New York City, with a Census-estimated population of 8,584,629 in July 2025, is a large and ethnically diverse metropolis. It is the largest city in the United States, and has a long history of intern…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States. It is located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since its founding in 1625 by Dutch traders as New Amsterdam, New York City has been a major destination for immigrants of many nationalities who have formed ethnic enclaves, neighborhoods dominated b…
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Claim 10: “For both the U.S. and Canada, AI tech roles grew by 45% in the past year”
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The 45% growth rate for AI tech roles in the U.S. and Canada is reported by multiple independent sources citing CBRE.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An artificial intelligence safety institute is a type of state-backed organization aiming to evaluate and ensure the safety of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, also called frontier AI mod…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Element AI was a Canadian multinational artificial intelligence company based in Montreal, Quebec. It was funded by the Government of Canada for CAD$5 million, and raised US$102 million independently,…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural ne…
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Claim 11: “San Francisco and New York each adding more than 20,000 AI-specific jobs since mid-2025, according to CBRE.”
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Multiple sources confirm that both San Francisco and New York added more than 20,000 AI-specific jobs since mid-2025.
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web search NEUTRAL — San Francisco and New York each added more than 20,000 AI-specific jobs since mid-2025. Those totals include both newly created jobs and conversions from existing jobs, which is an important qualifier…
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web search NEUTRAL — In fact, New York and San Francisco each added more than 20,000 AI jobs over the past year.The rankings tell a more nuanced story. The San Francisco Bay Area still holds the top spot, but New York ove…
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/this-city-just-toppled-s…
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web search NEUTRAL — AI-specific roles grew 45 percent over the past year across the U.S. and Canada, with New York and San Francisco each adding more than 20,000 AI jobs since mid-2025. AI companies drove 58 percent of S…
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Claim 12: “AI-related roles now account for nearly one-third of all tech-talent job listings in the U.S., per the findings.”
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Multiple sources confirm that AI-related roles account for nearly one-third of all tech-talent job listings in the U.S.
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web search NEUTRAL — AI-related roles now account for nearly one-third of all tech-talent job listings in the U.S., per the findings.
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web search NEUTRAL — AI-related roles account for nearly one third of all tech-talent job listings in the US. For anyone applying to technical roles, that means the probability of encountering AI requirements in a job des…
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web search NEUTRAL — AI-skilled tech talent across the U.S. and Canada grew 45% over the past year, with AI-related roles now representing nearly one-third of U.S. tech-talent job listings, according to CBRE.
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Claim 13: “The report analyzes tech-specific workers in 75 metropolitan markets in the U.S. and Canada.”
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Multiple sources explicitly state that the CBRE report analyzes tech-specific workers across 75 metropolitan markets in the U.S. and Canada.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. Located in northern Texas, it is the ninth-most populous city in the United States and third-most populous city in Texas, with a population of 1.3 million …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located on a harbour at the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. The city is the fourth-most …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is often referred to as Washington state to distinguish it from the national capital; both are named after George Washing…
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Claim 14: “By market, 37% of AI jobs in the U.S. are in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Seattle and Washington.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny the percentage of AI jobs in these specific four markets.
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