California's Legislature passed Assembly Bill 1776, the COMPETE Act, introduced by Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), which expands the state's antitrust law to give the attorn…
President Donald Trump and the White House released a torrent of AI-generated memes over Labor Day weekend portraying him as a superhero, a hockey star, and a military commander, even as polls show mo…
California is launching AwareCA, a free statewide public safety app developed by Intterra, to deliver real-time fire information directly from fire agencies, following 75 million visits to Cal Fire's …
Trading on prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi has surged ahead of the 2026 U.S. elections, prompting state regulators and election administrators to warn that high-stakes financial incen…
Nine U.S. senators, including Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff of California, urged the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to explicitly prohibit betting on wildfires, citing concerns that such ma…
Fewer than 1 in 10 of the 522 data brokers registered under California's 2023 Delete Act fully complied with transparency requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, according to new …
The Bay Area events calendar for Sept. 11-17 lists community activities including the AI Infra Summit, a three-day event starting Sept. 15 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, where attendees can lea…
Maryland's top court ruled Thursday that a Democratic-backed congressional redistricting amendment must appear on the November ballot, reversing lower court rulings that had blocked it. The amendment,…
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, representing General Motors Co., Toyota Motor Corp., and Volkswagen AG, urged U.S. lawmakers to permanently ban Chinese vehicles and related software and hardwa…
Elon Musk launched a self-driving taxi service in Austin, Texas, on Thursday using Tesla Cybercabs that have no steering wheels or brake pedals, betting that riders will overcome fears of having no co…
The Trump administration has stalled a nationwide survey of PFAS in wastewater that was submitted to the White House Office of Management and Budget in October 2024, according to two former EPA offici…
A Government Accountability Office report released Thursday found that the U.S. Secret Service failed to document why it did not update protection policies after several drone incidents, including one…
Uber and British tech company Wayve launched London's first self-driving taxi service on Thursday, starting with fewer than 20 Ford Mustang Mach-E electric vehicles equipped with Wayve's autonomous te…
The Trump administration proposed a rule on Thursday that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on race, affecting up to 1…
Meta Platforms Inc. released Muse Spark 1.3, its most powerful AI model yet, with Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang saying it is competitive with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and better than OpenAI's GPT…
Sonoma County supervisors approved a settlement paying $50,000 to each of three residents and enacting regulatory reforms to end the ACLU lawsuit over drone surveillance used for code enforcement. The…
President Donald Trump's administration has cut federal offices and funding that protect autistic children, including the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which investigates dis…
The Trump Justice Department filed a statement of interest in Manhattan Federal Court on Tuesday siding with OpenAI in a copyright lawsuit brought by the Daily News and other news organizations, argui…
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights sued the Trump administration Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington to block the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department from usin…
The Eureka City Council unanimously approved a 45-day moratorium on new data centers within city limits on Tuesday, citing concerns over water, power, and public safety. City Manager Miles Slattery sa…