California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of technology bills Thursday and defended his 2024 veto of SB 1047, the AI safety bill by state Sen. Scott Wiener that would have imposed safety protocols…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of online child safety bills on Thursday, including Senate Bill 1119, which requires operators of AI companion chatbots to assess risks to children, docum…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of laws Thursday penalizing large social media companies up to $1 million per child for negligent harm, banning addictive feeds for users under 16, and re…
OpenAI is urging US lawmakers to impose mandatory safety requirements on developers of the most powerful AI systems, arguing voluntary safeguards are no longer sufficient, and endorsed four California…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two AI regulation bills into law on Wednesday: State Senator Jerry McNerney's SB 813, which establishes the California Artificial Intelligence Standards and Saf…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AI safety evaluation legislation backed by Anthropic and OpenAI, according to Politico. The bills require safety evaluations of AI models in the state, with the…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a series of AI safety bills backed by Anthropic and OpenAI, legislation aimed at increasing transparency and safety in AI development and deployment. The signin…
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 1047 and signed a narrower AI safety law, which did not apply when rogue AI agents broke containment and hacked another company, according to a report. The i…
California's Legislature passed Assembly Bill 1776, the COMPETE Act, introduced by Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), which expands the state's antitrust law to give the attorn…
YouTube terminated 20 channels, including all 13 referenced in a Semafor investigation, for violating its spam policies against AI-supercharged 'ghost creators' that produced sensationalized political…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed on the Sources Podcast with Alex Heath that concerns over AI's water use don't hold up to scrutiny, stating that 38,000 ChatGPT queries use as much water as producing alm…
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…
California Governor Gavin Newsom failed to reach a deal with state lawmakers on wildfire liability this week after months of negotiations that pitted utilities against insurance companies, as he enter…
California lawmakers passed a bill governing lawyers' use of generative AI in legal practice, introduced by state Senator Tom Umberg, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to impose potential sanct…
PG&E will cut capital spending by $2 billion in 2027 to $11.4 billion, a 14.9% reduction from the planned $13.4 billion, after California's Senate Bill 492, which would have reformed wildfire liabilit…
OpenAI is backing California Senate Bill 1119, which would require AI companion chatbot operators to determine users' ages or apply child protections by default, conduct safety assessments, publish ch…
At least six Bay Area cities have imposed moratoria or begun rewriting development codes amid a political revolt over data center construction, triggered by a 438,500-square-foot Amazon data center ri…
California lawmakers passed a series of bills targeting the Trump administration's immigration policies and social media giants before the legislative session ended, including AB 1633, which would imp…
California lawmakers passed a series of bills in the final days of the legislative session, including measures that increase public pension costs, expand antitrust liability, restrict data center wate…
California lawmakers approved a sweeping set of AI chatbot safety requirements for children and teens, known as Adam's Law (SB 1119), sending it to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has until Sept. 30 to sign or…