The Wu administration has wrapped up the third and final round of SPACE grants aimed at using $10 million in federal funds to support small businesses that are filling empty storefronts in downtown ...

By Sameea Kamal, Calmatters California’s state Senate will be at least 50% women for the first time in history and, depending on a few undecided races, the state Legislature overall could reach gender ...

Science advocates are hoping to stay off the chopping block. Sudip Parikh, the chief executive of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, described an “inherent tension” between the ...

In addition to money Google spent lobbying the Legislature and governor from July through September during a media bill fight ...

San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie assembled a transition team that includes OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, leveraging influential local leaders as the political newcomer takes the reins of the ...

— GOP Rep. John Duarte continues to hold a narrow lead of about 2,000 votes over Democrat Adam Gray in his bid to hold a ...

A US federal court temporarily halted the enforcement of a California law designed to address deceptive artificial ...

As a leading technology hub, it is no shock that California is at the forefront of technology regulation, including regulation of Artificial Intelligence ... In 2024 alone, California Governor Gavin ...

Altman, 39, is the former president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator; in 2019, he became CEO of OpenAI, one of the ...

Experts suggest Trump's promised rollback of federal AI regulations may have limited impact due to state laws and industry ...

Sonsini, who cofounded Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and advised Google and Netscape in the 1990s, said that in hindsight, what was now clearly a light-touch approach – or in some cases a ...

The lawsuit, filed in federal court this week, targets a law that aims to combat harmful videos, images and audio that have ...