Ferrari's first all-electric vehicle, the Luce, sold for $40 million at a Sotheby's charity auction during Monterey Car Week, making it the most expensive new car ever sold at auction and surpassing t…
U.S. stock indexes hit new highs earlier this month despite Middle East war uncertainty, inflation, and rising bond yields, driven by consumer spending and massive corporate investment in AI, accordin…
Berkeley's City Council voted 7-2 on July 28 to approve a $20 million plan that eliminates 145 of 274 parking spaces on a 1.2-mile stretch of Hopkins Street to make way for bike lanes, a decision that…
Brentwood city officials are working to remove Flock surveillance cameras installed by the Shadow Lakes Homeowners Association on public streets after acknowledging they mistakenly approved the system…
Katie Husher, a former software engineer at Cruise who wrote code for autonomous vehicles, left her job in 2023 to become cellar master at Fogarty Winery in Woodside, California, where she now manages…
A proposed California Senate Bill 1167 and local measures aim to regulate e-bikes in the Bay Area, where a San Jose State University Mineta Transportation Institute study found that 88% of electric bi…
San Jose is considering quadrupling housing density in single-family neighborhoods from eight to 32 units per acre, a change affecting roughly 85% of the city's residential land, as part of a four-yea…
Generative AI is an imitation machine that cannot truly design or invent, argue design experts in an opinion piece. The authors, drawing on a decade of design experimentation with generative systems, …
California lawmakers on Thursday advanced three consumer-backed home insurance bills, including SB 1301 by Sen. Ben Allen, which would double nonrenewal notice from 45 to 90 days starting in 2028, whi…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is using autonomous AI to accelerate experimentation and broaden scientific discovery across metal alloys, chemical compounds, and cancer treatments, with staff …
The Trump administration deferred nearly $870 million in Medicaid payments to California and $199 million to Minnesota, citing suspected fraud, but provided no concrete examples, according to the Asso…
California lawmakers are moving to regulate AI-generated political ads as such content floods social media ahead of the 2026 midterms, with U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Ro Khanna reintroducing the A…
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…
A data center and AI complex may operate on the first floor of a downtown Oakland office building at 415 Thomas L. Berkley Way without a conditional use permit, according to a proposal by building own…
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…
San Jose city planners approved the subdivision of a 157.4-acre parcel within Western Digital's 176.3-acre tech campus, a decision that drew dozens of residents to oppose a proposed 444,400-square-foo…
Schools should teach students how to use AI responsibly rather than ban it, according to Larry Magid, CEO of ConnectSafely, in a piece featuring Kerry Gallagher, education director at ConnectSafely an…
Flock Safety, a leading provider of automated license plate readers, announced Thursday it will make mandatory several platform changes by Jan. 1, including an audit tool that locks out users on abnor…
Faulty backup camera systems have triggered recalls of approximately 21 million vehicles in the US since the government mandated the technology eight years ago, including nearly 6 million in the last …
Meta Platforms Inc. said it has removed access to more than 750,000 Instagram and Facebook accounts in Australia believed to belong to people under 16 since it began complying with the country's youth…