On 16 June 2026, the Imperial County Board of Supervisors in California declared a 45-day moratorium on data centres, later extended to a full year, halting approval of a nearly one-million-square-foo…
California lawmakers are advancing Senate Bill 903, introduced by Sen. Steve Padilla, which would ban advertising chatbots as therapy and require licensed professional review of AI therapeutic decisio…
Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing (IVCM) filed a June 5 lawsuit against the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) seeking about 260 million gallons of Colorado River water per year for its proposed …
San Francisco supervisors held a hearing Tuesday on Kaiser Permanente's proposed contract changes that would expand AI use in mental health care while allowing layoffs of clinicians, according to the …
Kaiser Permanente nurses say AI and workplace surveillance are harming patient care, with seven current and former nurses telling CalMatters that call-time tracking, productivity-prediction software, …
California community college districts are spending millions of dollars on AI-powered chatbots that often provide inaccurate or outdated information, frustrating students and driving them to unofficia…
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that California's water system is misallocated and ill-suited for climate change, with water trading negligible and rigid rules …
California state agencies are using six high-risk automated decision systems, including tools to predict recidivism, evaluate unemployment-fraud claims, and detect generative-AI use in student assignm…
Point Loma High School English teacher Jen Roberts is using AI tools including Brisk Boost and MagicSchool to provide students with faster, iterative feedback on reading and writing assignments. Nearl…