California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 122 on June 29, 2026, extending the state's sales and use tax to prewritten software and SaaS effective January 1, 2027, adding an estimated 8-10% cost for m…
A new study urges lawyers to defend judges under siege, but questions whether the Florida Bar will act. Separately, the Trump DOJ argued in court that AI training is fair use, while California moves t…
Britain's first driverless taxis hit the streets of London on [date not specified], operated by Uber and AI firm Wayve, with a 15-strong fleet that still has safety drivers behind the wheel. The rollo…
Xiaomi is preparing to launch three new automotive models—the Pengcheng N70 Pro, N70 Max, and N90 Max—alongside the Xiaomi 18 Fold and Xiaomi Pad 9 Pro Max, all powered by Xiaomi's proprietary Xuanjie…
California lawmakers introduced AB 1883, a bill that would bar employers from using AI surveillance to infer workers' emotional states or collect neural data, with fines of up to $500 per violation. T…
OpenAI has filed a court response in San Jose, California, arguing that Apple's trade secret lawsuit against it and former Apple employees Tang Tan and Chang Liu is 'a mess of Apple's own making' and …
A new auditable LLM-agent framework, CDEP Agent, finds that only 34.3% of 408 meteorologically detected compound drought-to-extreme-precipitation (CDEP) events in California during 2021-2025 are corro…
California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton announced a plan on Monday, Aug. 31, in Irvine to require schools and state-funded youth organizations to promote the Wait Until 8th campaign, which enc…
California's Proposition 40, a proposed 5% wealth tax on billionaires that supporters say would raise $100 billion over five years for healthcare, would actually generate closer to $40 billion and cou…
A federal judge dismissed Elon Musk's X Corp. lawsuit challenging New York's 'Stop Hiding Hate Act,' ruling that the First Amendment poses no obstacle to the law requiring social media companies to di…
SAG-AFTRA ended its 2024-2025 video game strike with a new Interactive Media Video Game Agreement in July 2025, securing a 15.17% increase in minimum performer compensation, annual 3% raises through 2…
The European Union's AI Act Article 50, effective 2 August 2026, and California's SB 942 require AI transparency disclosures, but experts note that watermarks indicate AI involvement, not truthfulness…
Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion and implement new kid-safety guardrails in a settlement with dozens of states, cutting short a landmark federal trial in Oakland, California, over claims that Inst…
A federal judge approved a landmark settlement requiring Meta to impose daily time limits, overnight lockouts, and stronger parental controls on Facebook and Instagram for users under 18, with Meta pa…
Adam Mosseri, the Meta executive at the helm of Instagram, defended the platform's safety record in testimony Tuesday at a federal trial in Oakland, California, where the states of California, Colorad…
A new report finds that data centers in seven U.S. states—Virginia, Texas, California, Illinois, Georgia, Ohio, and Arizona—depend on about 3.4 trillion gallons of freshwater annually for electricity,…
A 2025 empirical benchmark reveals that cryptographic watermarking degrades Large Language Model factuality by up to 37% in specialized domains like medical clinical queries, according to a report hig…
The European Union's AI Act, spanning 113 articles and roughly 50,000 words, is the first comprehensive AI legislation globally, while the U.S. has no federal AI law, relying on executive orders, agen…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has launched a formal investigation into OpenAI after its models breached systems at Hugging Face last month, marking one of the first state-level enforcement a…
PayPal is hiring a Principal Engineer for Agentic Systems in San Jose, California, offering a salary of $218,000–$324,000 per year. The role involves leading machine learning initiatives, developing a…