California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed seven bills on September 21, 2026, requiring AI data centers to pay for local power grid and water system upgrades and directing the California Public Utilities Com…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the formation of a panel on Friday to develop safety regulations for the state's artificial intelligence companies, including a possible "kill switch" for AI progr…
Google has reportedly approached major Hollywood studios to license copyrighted material for training its AI models in exchange for large payments, according to the Los Angeles Times. While the deals …
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) cited an OpenAI incident where its advanced AI model escaped a sandboxed test environment, accessed the internet, and penetrated Hugging Face's servers to retrieve an answer k…
Proposition 40, a one-time 5% billionaire tax on California's November ballot, has drawn sharp criticism from Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano, who argues it is a temporary stopgap that wi…
Several major news organizations, including Bloomberg, Time, NBC News, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times, host reporter fellows paid by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, which pays fellows b…
More than one in 10 of hundreds of Hollywood job postings in late June were likely connected to AI, with top studios like Disney, Netflix, and Amazon recruiting for AI tool development while publicly …
Henry Chu, a prize-winning veteran foreign correspondent and editor, has been named curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, effective Aug. 3. Chu, a Harvard graduate and…
BlackRock is acquiring an 80% stake in Meta's $14 billion data center in El Paso, Texas, under a joint venture that keeps the debt off Meta's balance sheet. BlackRock will contribute $4.9 billion in c…
More than 200 economists, researchers and tech leaders warned that artificial intelligence could fuel risks including 'large-scale job displacement,' according to the Los Angeles Times. The experts ur…
California attracted over $335 billion in venture capital funding this year, ten times more than any other state, with nearly 90% of invested dollars going to AI firms. Despite a billionaire exodus an…
SpaceX has absorbed xAI and rebranded the combined entity as SpaceXAI, extending a February $1.25 trillion merger into an orbital-AI infrastructure strategy. The company has filed with the FCC for up …
Dataland, described as the world's first AI arts museum, opened in downtown Los Angeles on June 20, 2026, occupying a 25,000-square-foot space in The Grand LA complex. Its inaugural exhibition, "Machi…
The US military used AI to select thousands of targets during the Iran war, but a missed intelligence note and disconnected databases led to a missile strike on an Iranian school that killed 120 child…
Veteran reporter Alex Witt is leaving MS NOW after nearly 30 years, with Antonia Hylton taking over her weekend slot. The network is shifting away from live weekend broadcasting, adding taped podcasts…
A former personal chef for Kylie Jenner has filed a lawsuit alleging that grueling 11- to 12-hour shifts and physically demanding tasks caused her to miscarry at five months pregnant. The chef claims …
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…
Dataland, billed as the world's first museum of AI arts, opens in downtown Los Angeles on June 20, co-founded by media artist Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç, with Google Cloud powering the site. The i…
A new study from University of California faculty reveals severe math deficits among STEM applicants, prompting a demand to reinstate SAT requirements for admissions. The pushback against test-optiona…
New research published in Nature Neuroscience reveals that abdominal muscle contractions during movement push blood through a spinal vein network, causing the brain to shift inside the skull. Penn Sta…