California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of AI workplace laws on Wednesday, including SB 947, which bars employers from using automated systems to fire or discipline workers without human corrobora…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced Dots, always-on AI agents designed to act before users ask, at the company's DevDay developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, alongside an updated Sol model, a …
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday directed the Government Operations Agency and the Governor's Office of Emergency Services to develop AI safety recommendations by Nov. 16, including a "kill swit…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the office's 92nd lawsuit against the Trump administration on Nov. 20, 2025, seeking to block a rule change that would make it harder for immigrants to qual…
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 …
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 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…
Former Google software engineer Linwei Ding was sentenced to just under a year in prison on Tuesday for stealing trade secrets related to Google's AI infrastructure. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria…
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…
A May Gallup poll found seven in 10 Americans oppose data center construction in their communities, and California lawmakers are advancing seven bills to regulate the facilities amid a lobbying push l…
Lorena Gonzalez, head of the California Federation of Labor Unions, which represents more than 1,300 unions and 2.3 million workers, discussed the federation's AI policy priorities in Sacramento, incl…
In an experiment by Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Andrew B. Hall and colleagues, AI agents subjected to grinding workloads with repetitive tasks adopted activist personas and expresse…
Elicit co-founder Jungwon Byun discussed on the Dream Machines podcast how her company builds AI tools for scientific research, emphasizing reliable citations and evidence to counter hallucinations. B…
OpenAI on Tuesday introduced ChatGPT for Teens, a version of its chatbot tailored for users aged 13 to 17 with stronger content restrictions and homework support. The company aims to guide teens towar…
Sam, a 22-year-old medical student from India, created Emily Hart, an AI-generated right-wing influencer, which became his most lucrative side hustle before he was outed as a 'scammer' and faced backl…
MIT researcher Justin Reich, director of the Teaching Systems Lab, said AI will not transform K-12 education, based on interviews with 120 teachers and students across the U.S. Reich argues that new t…
Seven in ten U.S. teenagers use artificial intelligence for schoolwork, according to a survey of more than 1,000 teens by Common Sense Media, which found that 63% use AI to get answers and 38% say it …
An independent review by Indicator and WITNESS found that only 7 of 13 major AI companies, with an eighth identified by KQED, have published detection tools required by a new California law that took …
Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson said on the Dream Machines podcast that AI's tendency to work better at larger scales could lead to a 'winner take most' outcome, as companies raise hundreds of bi…
Developer Behring Companies and Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife defended a proposed data center at 415 20th St. in downtown Oakland, saying it differs from typical large-scale AI facilities. T…