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Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill opposed by Silicon Valley
SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday vetoed SB 1047, an artificial intelligence safety bill that would have established requirements for developers of advanced AI models to create protocols aimed...
Opinion: Desperate for good news about climate change? Consider the pace of clean energy growth
Climate change has been viewed almost universally as a burden, a hot potato to be passed from country to country at annual climate change conferences. Although it’s widely known...
Southern California’s hottest commercial real estate market is for tenants that aren’t human
Where Wilshire Boulevard begins in downtown Los Angeles, thousands of miles of undersea fiber-optic cables disappear into an ordinary-looking office tower.One Wilshire is the mother of all data centers...
We went to a gala for AI-produced movies. Here’s what we saw
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Film Commission Vice President Jack Song has been to many Hollywood movie premieres before, but this was a first — a gala led by tech...
Elon Musk’s X says it’s policing harmful content as scrutiny of the platform grows
Amid rising concerns that X has become less safe under billionaire Elon Musk, the platform formerly known as Twitter is seeking to assure advertisers and critics that it still...
Mark Hamill, Jane Fonda, J.J. Abrams urge Gov. Newsom to sign AI safety bill
More than 125 Hollywood actors, directors, producers, music artists and entertainment industry leaders have added their names to a letter released Tuesday urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign a...
AI? New jobs? California’s local news deal with Google leaves lots of unanswered questions
Early this summer, California seemed poised to play a leading role in shaping a new frontier of tech regulation as lawmakers considered bills to force big digital platforms to...
California’s digital driver’s licenses now work with Apple Wallet
Californians can now securely add their digital driver’s license or state ID to the Apple Wallet app on their iPhone and Apple Watch, the company announced Thursday.“With this new...
Social media platforms engaged in ‘vast surveillance’ and failed to protect young people, FTC finds
Major social media platforms and video streaming services that gather a “staggering” amount of data from their users have failed to protect young people and safeguard online privacy, the...
Opinion: California’s AI safety bill is under fire. Making it law is the best way to improve it
On Aug. 29, the California Legislature passed Senate Bill 1047 — the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act — and sent it to Gov. Gavin...
