California signed a first-of-its-kind centralized contract with Anthropic on June 29, 2026, to deploy Claude AI across state and local agencies, following Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order N-5-2…
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Anthropic reached an agreement making Claude the first AI tool available to all state agencies and local governments, with a 50% price discount, free workforce tra…
Anthropic is offering steep discounts for government access to its Claude AI model, including near-free federal access and a $15 million credit program for state and local governments. California is a…
Oakland resident Midori reports finding dead bees on her front porch, possibly due to infection by the zombie fly (Apocephalus borealis), a parasite that disorients bees and draws them to lights. The …
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed executive orders in March and May 2026 to expand AI use in state government, including stricter vendor safeguards and labor market studies, while creating a reg…
California voters will decide on an $8.4 billion bond measure to fund immunotherapy research, aiming to offset federal NIH cuts that have disrupted clinical trials and left patients like Laurie Adami …
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislators agreed on a $351.7 billion budget that extends sales tax to prewritten software downloaded from the web, raising $2 billion annually startin…
The US government is tightening regulation of frontier AI models, requiring staggered releases and government reviews that could delay or restrict models like GPT-5.6. This creates operational risks f…
Microsoft announced a 90% reduction in data center water usage and launched a community-first initiative to address local opposition, as 69 US jurisdictions have imposed restrictions on new data cente…
AI developers and donors have pledged $275 million toward political races, with AI companies and affiliated groups spending at least $83 million on federal elections in 2025 and tens of millions more …
San Jose has trained its 1,000th employee on AI tools as part of a plan to boost government efficiency and preserve jobs amid budget cuts. The city aims to train 2,500 workers by 2027, leveraging AI t…
Alameda County is spending millions on a runoff election to fill ex-Rep. Eric Swalwell's seat, with the winner serving only a few months. The top-two system risks electing a candidate with minimal sup…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers reached a deal on the state's $350 billion budget, which includes a constitutional amendment to bolster the rainy day fund and a bond plan for hou…
Faith in Action East Bay executive director Todd Benson urges California Senator Jerry McNerney to pass AB 2465, which would end government subsidies for companies profiting from immigration detention…
California launched the nation's first AI-Unemployment Tracker on Thursday to detect automation-driven job losses. Developed by Governor Gavin Newsom's office, the Employment Development Department, a…
Katie Porter, after losing the California governor race, plans to continue teaching at UC Irvine School of Law and focus on family. She sees the loss as an opportunity to reset and engage in policy wo…
California voters will decide in November on a one-time 5% tax on billionaires after backers of the initiative declined to withdraw it by the deadline, despite opposition from the state's governor. Th…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a federal minimum tax on billionaires and a national fund to give Americans a stake in AI-generated wealth, arguing the tax should be addressed at the federal lev…
California launched the nation's first state-level AI-Unemployment Tracker under Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order, revealing that college-educated workers in AI-exposed occupations, particularl…
California launched the nation's first AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) to monitor AI-related job loss in real time. Early data shows no mass layoffs statewide, but elevated claims among college-educate…