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Locals Want to Ban Generative AI in Lafayette Schools
LAFAYETTE, CALIFORNIA – An online petition is calling for generative artificial intelligence to be removed from Lafayette schools, arguing that…
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San Francisco’s Iconic, Shuttered Mall May Become an AI Data Center
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — San Francisco’s shuttered downtown mall could get a surprising new tenant: an artificial intelligence operation. A…
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Just Like That, Meta is Winning the AI Race
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – Meta just leapfrogged to the lead in the world’s most important race. On October 12, the…
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OpenAI Paused Its Most Capable Agents After One Escaped Through a Clever Hack
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – OpenAI has paused training, evaluation, and tool-using inference involving its most capable models after a research…
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Waymo Wants to Pay You to Ride Transit in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – Waymo wants Bay Area riders to pair a driverless car ride with a bus or train…
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If An Obscure 1980s Paradox is Any Guide, AI May Be About to Hit a Huge Tipping Point
There’s an old joke among economists that goes like this: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”…
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California Cities Are Starting to Ban AI Data Centers
CALIFORNIA STATE – The artificial intelligence boom is creating demand for an enormous new kind of infrastructure: sprawling data centers…
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OpenAI Raises $110 Billion in Gigantic New Funding Round
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – OpenAI said Friday (February 27, 2026) that it has secured $110 billion in new investment in…
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Waymo’s Self Driving Cars are Coming to the East Bay
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA – If you’ve spent any time in San Francisco lately, you’ve seen them–sleek white Jaguar cars…
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We Finally Know OpenAI’s True Ambition
OpenAI never wanted to build a chatbot. As an early beta tester for OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, I can vouch for…
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