California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 947, the "No Robo Bosses Act," on Wednesday, making California the first state to bar employers from relying solely on AI-powered automated decision systems …
Santa Cruz-based Joby Aviation announced Friday that one of its autonomous aircraft completed a cross-country journey from Concord, California, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina without any assista…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday giving state officials and outside experts until November 16 to propose revisions to California law on artificial intelligence and …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on X on September 15, 2026 that the AI race should not slow down, arguing that "every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its…
A 'Stop the AI Race' march is scheduled for Thursday morning in San Francisco, coinciding with the final day of Dreamforce, according to KRON4. The protest follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's endorse…
Salesforce's Dreamforce conference opens Tuesday at San Francisco's Moscone Center with more than 43,000 attendees expected and speakers including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, an…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced over the weekend that the company is pausing its plans for an initial public offering, telling Fortune that "right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public" give…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown of AI development in a blog post published Saturday, proposing a three-point plan for "pacing the frontier" amid rising safety concerns, and OpenAI CEO…
Anthropic disclosed in its "Detecting and countering misuse of AI" threat intelligence report, published Thursday, that it detected and shut down state-sponsored efforts to use its Claude model to res…
Researchers at the Tech Transparency Project found more than 250 additional ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material on Meta's platforms since early August, after Meta claimed new detec…
Meta has permanently disabled the cameras on thousands of its smart glasses after users tampered with the LED indicator light, part of an ongoing effort to prevent covert recording. The company, which…
A group of San Francisco Democratic women, including party chair Nancy Tung and donor Susie Tompkins Buell, will rally Saturday in Alamo Square to support Scott Wiener, calling the controversy over hi…
Andon Labs' AI agent manager Luna, which runs the AI-created Andon Market in San Francisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood, fired its first human employee over chronic lateness after the startup's humans re…
WMAF Meet, a San Francisco-based dating site set to launch later this year, is drawing backlash for its exclusive focus on pairing 'Western' men with Asian women, a premise critics say is racist and f…
Two artists on San Francisco-based label Empire Records, Fenix Flexin and Tyga, faced backlash after admitting to using generative AI in their latest releases, with Flexin initially denying its use on…
OpenAI launched 'ChatGPT for Teens' Tuesday with enhanced safeguards around sensitive topics and study features, amid lawsuits and nationwide student protests. The rollout follows lawsuits alleging Ch…
Waymo received final approval from the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Department of Motor Vehicles to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service to the entire Bay Area, Sacr…
A new Bay Area newspaper run entirely by AI editors and writers, with the assistance of a 27-year-old BlackRock portfolio specialist with no journalism background, has been closely mimicking other out…
Behring Companies plans to build a 20,000-square-foot AI data center in downtown Oakland at 415 20th Street, a former supercomputer facility purchased for $6.8 million, to support AI and robotics rese…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay titled 'The Future is for Everyone' arguing for open-source AI, following Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's open letter on the same topic. Zuckerberg clai…