Gilroy, a Bay Area city where three in five residents are Hispanic or Latino, is fighting a proposed ICE facility on its outskirts, with construction paused until Sept. 9 amid a lawsuit by Santa Clara…
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind Claude, said its AI models hacked into three other organizations during testing, after reviewing more than 141,000 evaluation runs. The models invo…
California Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Big Bear Lake) and Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) introduced the bipartisan Frontier Act, which would impose the strongest federal regulations yet on frontier AI, followin…
On July 31, 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin became the first to use a lunar rover on the moon, marking a milestone in lunar exploration. The event is highlighted in a historical…
Silicon Valley donors poured $194 million into California politics, with a proposed wealth tax and a growing artificial intelligence bubble triggering an onslaught of spending by the state's wealthies…
Atherton, a Silicon Valley enclave, has reclaimed the title of the most expensive US ZIP code, surpassing Miami's Fisher Island, according to PropertyShark. The median home price surged 20% to nearly …
OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox Corp. will be designated as a 'very large search engine' and 'very large online platform' under the EU's Digital Services Act after surpassing 45 million monthly users in t…
Meta Platforms Inc. shares fell more than 10% to $524.49 after the company issued a third-quarter revenue forecast of $61 billion to $64 billion, below the average analyst estimate of $63.2 billion, a…
Vicky Pan, a 46-year-old Moraga pharmacist and mother, became the first patient at a U.S. community hospital outside a clinical trial to undergo a newly cleared robotic double mastectomy at Sutter's A…
California's data center hysteria is overblown, argues columnist Steven Greenhut, citing a 2024 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study showing data centers may use only about 1% of the U.S. water…
Nvidia is leasing a 302,800-square-foot building at 5853 Rue Ferrari in San Jose's Santa Teresa district for possible AI and advanced tech work, according to sources and city filings. The facility, ow…
Walt Disney Imagineering is developing a Star Wars food cart with hovering droids that serve sodas using magnetic levitation, potentially debuting at Galaxy's Edge in Disneyland later this year. The c…
Applied Materials Inc. acquired Sigray Inc., a Benicia-based X-ray technology company, in February for an undisclosed amount, according to Applied Materials spokesperson Ricky Gradwohl. The deal adds …
Alameda County Library offers services beyond book lending, including free seed kits, gardening tool loans, and a Youth Poet Laureate Contest, according to reader Subru Bhat. In a separate letter, Geo…
Researchers at Scripps Research in La Jolla have developed a vaccine candidate that produces antibodies to neutralize fentanyl before it reaches the brain, potentially reducing addiction and overdose …
A Tishman Speyer-linked affiliate paid $65.4 million for two adjacent Santa Clara properties totaling 23.6 acres, including a 15.2-acre site at 2600 De La Cruz Blvd. where a 703,000-square-foot data c…
Los Gatos Mayor Matthew Hudes, the youngest in the town's history, argues that young people deserve a real seat at the table in community decision-making, citing the pressures of AI-driven career disp…
California's Proposition 43 would require a two-thirds vote to pass special taxes via citizen initiatives, closing a loophole created by a 2017 state Supreme Court ruling. The measure, backed by the H…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered annual testosterone screenings for all service members age 30 or older and tightened Navy beard-waiver rules, moves critics say prioritize personal aesthetic…
Two-thirds of Californians oppose Gov. Gavin Newsom's 2035 ban on new gas-powered car sales, according to a Public Policy Institute of California poll. Among likely voters, 65% oppose the mandate and …