Oakland Councilmember Carroll Fife will propose a 45-day moratorium on new data center approvals at Tuesday's Life Enrichment Committee meeting, seeking time for the city to write regulations protecti…
San Francisco District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton plans to introduce a 45-day moratorium on city approvals for new data centers on Sept. 15, 2026, citing city codes governing data centers that have …
Bay City News reports that San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland are already deploying artificial intelligence in municipal operations, including police body camera footage analysis, with officials say…
Flock Safety announced privacy updates on Thursday, including allowing police departments to restrict data access and shortening default data retention to one week, as Bay Area cities split over its l…
Behring Companies plans to build a 20,000-square-foot AI data center in downtown Oakland at 415 20th Street, a former supercomputer facility purchased for $6.8 million, to support AI and robotics rese…
A group of young Black men and boys showcased AI-powered apps they created over the summer at the Kapor Center in Oakland, addressing community issues such as substance abuse, fear of U.S. Immigration…
Twenty-six current and former Meta employees are suing the company in federal court, alleging that AI-assisted systems including productivity scoring, token usage tracking, and performance ranking alg…
Twenty-six former Meta employees have filed a lawsuit alleging the company used artificial intelligence systems to determine which workers were laid off, disproportionately targeting those on legally …
26 Meta employees have filed a lawsuit in Oakland, California, alleging that the company used artificial intelligence to select workers for mass layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical …
Meta is facing a lawsuit from 26 current and former employees alleging the company used AI-assisted workplace monitoring tools, including keystroke tracking and digital activity data, to identify staf…
Twenty-six Meta employees have filed a lawsuit alleging the company used AI systems to select workers for mass layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical or family leave. The lawsuit, file…
A group of 26 former Meta employees filed a federal lawsuit in California accusing the company of using biased artificial intelligence software to monitor emails, keystrokes, and web activity and rank…
Twenty-six Meta Platforms employees filed a novel lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who took medical leave duri…
Twenty-six former Meta Platforms employees filed a federal lawsuit in Oakland, California, on July 13, 2026, alleging the company used AI tools including 'Metamate' and activity-monitoring data to sco…
26 Meta employees have sued the company, alleging it used AI systems to select workers for layoffs and disproportionately targeted those on medical, parental or family leave. The lawsuit, filed Monday…
Twenty-six former Meta employees sued the company Monday in federal court in Oakland, California, alleging that AI-assisted performance metrics used in layoffs unfairly targeted workers with disabilit…
A Redfin analysis estimates that current and former employees of OpenAI and Anthropic could collectively buy nearly one-third of all homes in San Francisco with their IPO earnings, reflecting the mass…
A new book by Jean Wells, a former Concord City Hall employee, reveals that the sexual harassment she endured from Mayor Byron Campbell in 1992 triggered memories of childhood sexual abuse by her fath…
California Governor Gavin Newsom reversed his opposition to new homelessness funding, agreeing to a $900 million budget for the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention grant program. The compromis…
A letter to the editor criticizes news media for reducing elections to popularity contests, urging newspapers to focus on candidates' histories, policies, and financial backers rather than polling num…