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California lawmakers advance tax on Big Tech to help fund news industry
SACRAMENTO — The California state Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at helping the news industry by imposing a new tax on some of the biggest tech companies in the...
Will Google strike a deal with California news outlets to fund journalism?
SACRAMENTO — California news publishers and Big Tech companies appear to be inching toward compromise on a controversial bill that would require Google and huge social media platforms to pay...
How Santa Clara chipmaker Nvidia became one of the world’s most valuable companies in the AI boom
For more than a decade, with only a few interruptions, Apple held the title of the world’s most valuable company, becoming the first to top $3 trillion in market...
Foundation honoring ‘Star Trek’ creator offers million-dollar prize to develop AI that’s ‘used for good’
To boldly go where no man has gone before.That’s the mission of the USS Enterprise — and arguably the aim of a $1-million prize being offered through a foundation...
California lawmakers are trying to regulate AI before it’s too late. Here’s how
For four years, Jacob Hilton worked for one of the most influential startups in the Bay Area — OpenAI. His research helped test and improve the truthfulness of AI...
Opinion: As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it?
Amid the hype surrounding Apple’s new deal with OpenAI, one issue has been largely papered over: The AI company’s foundational models are, and have always been, built atop the...
Many California voters get their info from social media, even if they don’t trust it, poll shows
In California, where a ballot often contains pages of candidates and initiatives, most voters rely on the state-provided guide for election information, a new poll has found. But with...
California plans to enlist AI to translate healthcare information
Tener gripe, tener gripa, engriparse, agriparse, estar agripado, estar griposo, agarrar la gripe, coger la influenza. In Spanish, there are at least a dozen ways to say someone has...
Phishing attack hits L.A. County public health agency, jeopardizing 200,000-plus residents’ personal info
The personal information of more than 200,000 people in Los Angeles County was potentially exposed after a hacker used a phishing email to steal the login credentials of 53...
Elon Musk blasts Apple’s OpenAI deal over alleged privacy issues. Does he have a point?
When Apple holds its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, its software announcements typically elicit cheers and excitement from tech enthusiasts.But there was one notable exception this year — Elon Musk....
