Tech workers face a narrowing window to unionize as mass layoffs, AI displacement, and corporate surveillance drive organizing efforts, but a weakened federal labor board and a softer job market pose …
Japanese studio Marumittu Games' new video game D-topia, releasing on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2, uses cozy puzzle mechanics to critique AI optimization by placin…
Researchers from UCLA, UT Austin, and Lambda, Inc. introduced MT-EditFlow, a reinforcement learning framework for multi-turn image editing that uses flow matching to optimize reward signals. The frame…
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…
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 Governor Gavin Newsom launched the California AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) on June 25, 2026, the first public dashboard to correlate AI exposure metrics with unemployment claims. Initial …
A study from the University of Edinburgh and UCLA found that large-language-model trading strategies underperformed a simple buy-and-hold approach over 20 years across 100+ stock symbols. The AI bots …
California launched the California AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) on June 25, the first U.S. tool linking AI exposure data with unemployment claims. Early data through May 2026 shows no measurable AI-…
Veteran entertainment lawyer Ken Ziffren, reflecting on 50 years of UCLA Law's Entertainment Symposium, advocates for reviving financial interest and syndication rules to require streamers to carry in…
Stanford researchers released the Stanford EDGAR Filings Dataset (SEFD), a 152 billion token reconstruction of SEC EDGAR filings from 1994 to present in a layout-faithful MultiMarkdown format, achievi…
In September 2025, a recent UCLA graduate rejected a six-figure tech consulting offer and moved to the Bay Area to address a critical bottleneck in AI safety: a shortage of skilled communicators who c…
UCLA is pursuing a pre-litigation resolution with Oracle over a delayed software-as-a-service transformation project. The university is seeking to avoid a formal lawsuit by resolving the dispute befor…
A new study from Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, MIT and UCLA found that using AI for just 10 minutes significantly impaired participants' cognitive function and problem-solving abilities. After losing acces…
Serve Robotics deployed 500 additional delivery robots across 40 Los Angeles neighborhoods this month, expanding from just two neighborhoods in 2023, while competitor Coco Robotics operates roughly 30…
The May 2026 FIRE Monthly Member Webinar, titled "So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast Ep. 272," featured FIRE executives Nico Perrino, Alisha Glennon, Greg Lukianoff, and Will Creeley discussing pres…
Episode 272 of the "So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast," hosted by FIRE's Nico Perrino. This episode covers topics including shouting down speakers, free speech at UCLA, heckling, AI, doxxing, and c…