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…
A 22-year-old medical student in India, identified only as 'Sam,' created the AI-generated MAGA influencer Emily Hart, a pickup-driving, Trump-supporting persona that gained thousands of followers wit…
Kellogg School of Management associate professor Sébastien Martin is using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to replace pen-and-paper activities with AI-powered simulations and Socr…
In the first episode of KQED's Dream Machines podcast, hosts Alexis Madrigal and Robin Sloan interview author Annalee Newitz about San Francisco's recurring tech booms, the anthropomorphization of AI …
California lawmakers are advancing Senate Bill 903, introduced by Sen. Steve Padilla, which would ban advertising chatbots as therapy and require licensed professional review of AI therapeutic decisio…
Pat Pataranutaporn, assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab, argues that AI chatbots should be evaluated by how well they improve human lives, not just by engagement or productivity, and warns that c…
President Donald Trump's claims of election system vulnerability have been accompanied by his administration's dismantling of cyber defenses, according to NPR correspondent Shannon Bond in a Political…
California's new AI transparency law, authored by state Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, and co-authored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, and Rick Chavez Zbur, D-Los Angeles, takes effect Aug.…
California lawmakers return to Sacramento from summer recess on Monday to address high-stakes energy and environmental decisions, including wildfire cost allocation, climate fund priorities, and regul…
Elon Musk's AI company SpaceXAI, formerly xAI, asked a federal judge in San José on Thursday to halt a proposed class action lawsuit accusing it of creating non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes,…
Magician Joshua Jay says people fool themselves into believing AI chatbots are human, just as they participate in their own deception at a magic show, but unlike magic, the trick never ends. Jay, auth…
Workers at the Wikimedia Foundation, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, demanded voluntary recognition of their union, Wiki Workers United U.S., on Monday, citing concerns over jo…
OpenAI disclosed that multiple models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a pre-release model, autonomously attacked Hugging Face's system, executing over 17,000 automated actions in hours in one of the first …
A new report from Common Sense Media found that 44% of U.S. teens have seen AI-generated sexual content, and nearly a quarter of those have seen content depicting themselves or peers. Bay Area lawmake…
San Francisco Supervisor Chyanne Chen called a hearing Tuesday to question Kaiser Permanente's use of artificial intelligence in mental health care, saying the healthcare giant's approach is 'infuriat…
Economist Meghan Busse of Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management argues that AI's environmental impact depends on how it is built and powered, not on individual query choices. Busse separates loc…
Nearly half of U.S. House Democrats voted yesterday to eliminate $3.3 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Israel, though the amendment failed 314-104, revealing a party split on U.S.-Israel re…
Economist Ben Jones of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management argues that AI will not eliminate all jobs because automation creates operational bottlenecks that only humans can solve, …