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Silicon Valley city to give residents doorbells equipped with cameras

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Milpitas approves measure to distribute smart doorbells and says residents can upload footage to police databaseA Silicon Valley city will offer its residents free wireless doorbells equipped with cameras to help police collect video evidence.The city council of Milpitas, a suburb north of San Jose, California, recently approved $60,000 to provide these devices on a […]

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California to impose new AI regulations in defiance of Trump call

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Gavin Newsom signs order to prioritize public safety and rights as president seeks to prevent ‘cumbersome’ rulesCalifornia will impose new standards on artificial intelligence companies seeking to do business with the state, defying Donald Trump’s demands to keep the controversial industry as deregulated as possible.Democratic governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Monday that

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‘Thank God they’re still alive’: Kaiser therapists claim its new screening system puts patients at higher risk by delaying their care

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Kaiser pushed back on striking workers’ claims and AI fears, saying it delivers ‘timely, high-quality care to meet members’ needs’Ilana Marcucci-Morris is worried about the patients she treats and how long it took for them to arrive in her office. At Kaiser Permanente’s psychiatry outpatient clinic in Oakland, California, she says she increasingly finds herself

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Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI

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Elon Musk’s xAI has lost its bid for a preliminary injunction that would have temporarily blocked California from enforcing a law that requires AI firms to publicly share information about their training data. xAI had tried to argue that California’s Assembly Bill 2013 (AB 2013) forced AI firms to disclose carefully guarded trade secrets. The

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Questions loom over FBI raid of LA superintendent’s home and district office

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Media outlets indicate connection to bankrupt educational technology company that created chatbot for districtTwo days after the FBI searched the headquarters of the Los Angeles unified school district and the home of its superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, questions remain and officials have said little publicly about the nature of the investigation.In an emergency meeting on Thursday,

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Tech’s politics push at home and abroad

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We report from California’s Silicon Valley, where billionaires pour money into midterms, and the AI Impact summit, where India pushes back on ‘AI monopoly’ held by US and ChinaHello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, we’re examining the tech industry’s push for influence in two places separated by a time difference of 13 hours and

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Tesla avoids California sales ban by removing ‘autopilot’ from marketing

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State regulators walk back suspension threat and say Tesla has stopped misleading drivers about the safety of its carsTesla will avoid a 30-day suspension of its dealer and manufacturer licenses in California, its biggest market, after the US electric vehicle maker stopped using the term “autopilot” in the marketing of its vehicles in the state.Tesla

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Palantir moves headquarters to Miami amid tech’s growing retreat to Florida

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Data analytics firm moves from Denver after about six years and joins host of businesses relocating to south Florida Palantir announced on Tuesday that it has moved its headquarters to Miami from Denver. The data analytics company, criticized for its role in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, joins a host of other businesses and billionaires

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California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies

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As Gavin Newsom departs, ultra-wealthy flex wealth and influence to fight regulation and keep the boom goingTech billionaires are leveraging tens of millions of dollars to influence California politics in a marked uptick from their previous participation in affairs at the state capitol. Behemoths such as Google and Meta are getting involved in campaigns for

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Instagram CEO dismisses idea of social media addiction in landmark trial

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Adam Mosseri defends app on witness stand and says critics must separate ‘clinical addiction’ from ‘problematic use’Instagram’s CEO dismissed the idea that users can be addicted to social media at a landmark California trial on Wednesday.“I think it’s important to differentiate between clinical addiction and problematic use,” Adam Mosseri said on the witness stand. Psychologists

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