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Australia's economy grew 0.3% in the first quarter of 2026, down from 0.9% in the previous quarter, while GDP per person fell 0.1%, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The slowdown was driven by households …
Incumbent John Garamendi led the District 8 congressional primary with 54% of the vote Tuesday, outpacing Republican Ruby Recile at 29% and two other Democrats. The race is the first election in the newly redrawn distric…
Google will allow website owners to opt out of having their content appear in AI-generated search results, including AI Overviews and AI Mode, through a new toggle in Search Console. The company said the opt-out will not…
Google is rolling out new Search Generative AI performance reports in Google Search Console that show impressions, pages, countries, and devices for content appearing in AI Overviews and AI Mode, but the reports exclude …
OpenAI updated its Privacy Policy to include information about ads in ChatGPT, which will appear on Free and Go plans but not on paid tiers. The company stated ads will be clearly labeled and will not influence ChatGPT's…
Incumbent Rep. Lateefah Simon holds a commanding 80.9% lead over challenger Jamie Joyce, who has 18.9% of the vote, with 7.6% of registered voters reported as of Tuesday night in California's Congressional District 12 pr…
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen held a commanding 60.1% to 39.8% lead over challenger Daniel Chung in Tuesday's primary election, positioning him to secure a fifth term without a November runoff. Rosen, b…
Anthropic has confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering, setting up a high-profile test of investor appetite for generative AI amid a broader tech rally that has pushed the Nasdaq and S&P 500 to record high…
State Sen. Aisha Wahab took an early lead Tuesday in the primary election to permanently replace former Rep. Eric Swalwell, who resigned from Congress amid sexual misconduct allegations. Early returns showed Wahab with 3…
Mozilla Chief Technology Officer Raffi Krikorian argues the central question in AI policy is whether the technology remains something users control or something they lease from a handful of companies. Krikorian, a former…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta secured a double-digit lead over Republican challenger Michael Gates in Tuesday's primary, with 54.1% of the vote to Gates' 41.4% based on early returns. The race positions Bonta, a …
The European Commission’s European Semester Spring Package warns that over a million jobs across Europe could be lost in the coming years due to high energy costs, foreign competition, and the green transition. The repor…
Two Democrats, former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim and State Sen. Ben Allen, led the primary race for California insurance commissioner with 24% and 20% of reported votes, respectively, according to initial returns …
Researchers have developed EURO-5K, a new dataset of sentence-level reporting obligations from 136 EU legislative acts, to improve automated extraction of regulatory requirements. Benchmarking discriminative BERT-style m…
Researchers have identified a critical flaw in using standard survival prediction models for organ allocation, showing that even highly accurate predictors optimized for metrics like the C-index can perform no better tha…
Early results Tuesday night show Contra Costa County's Measure A, which would extend an anti-sprawl urban limit line policy through 2051, receiving 68.94% voter approval. The measure, first enacted in 1990, aims to prese…
Early results show Richmond Councilmember Claudia Jimenez leading the mayoral race with 34% of the vote, followed by political scion Ahmad Anderson at 29.37%, as five candidates compete to succeed incumbent Eduardo Marti…
Democratic state Treasurer Fiona Ma and Republican former state Sen. Gloria Romero led early returns Tuesday night in California's lieutenant governor race, with Ma at 20.2% and Romero at 19% of the vote. The top two fin…
Meta is scaling back its plan to collect employee mouse movements, keystrokes and other actions for AI training data after weeks of staff pushback, according to an internal memo. New controls will allow workers to pause …
Former U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra, former Fox News host Steve Hilton and billionaire philanthropist Tom Steyer led early returns in the California governor’s race on election night, signaling a potential Democr…