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CAL FIRE tested Seneca's autonomous firefighting drones on July 15, with five aircraft participating in a field demonstration, according to Deputy Chief Jack Worden. Seneca's system uses AI and comput…

California launched satellites built by Muon Space, launched by SpaceX, and using Google's AI to detect wildfires from space, with CAL FIRE and a global nonprofit coalition involved. Senator Bernie Sa…

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced July 21 that the state's ALERTCalifornia network of 1,260 mountaintop cameras, 915 of which run AI smoke detection, has flagged more than 900 fires on state …