Daily Digest: High-rise apartment plans streamlined; Bay Area layoffs

Good morning, Bay Area. Starting off with some big tech news, buy now, pay later giant Affirm is launching in the U.K., the San Francisco company’s first market outside North America, Bloomberg reports. Turning to tech leasing news, AI-powered productivity app maker Notion just leaded over 100,000 square feet on 685 Market St. Reporter Sarah Klearman has the story. In other news, a San Francisco Superior Court judge has struck down the city’s controversial residential vacancy tax, a 2022 ballot measure…