17+ hour, 4+ min ago   (846+ words) California lawmakers are calling for emergency legislation and criminal penalties for creators of rogue AI systems after top AI executives publicly claimed that their technology poses existential threats to humanity. After Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei wrote in a Sept....

17+ hour, 17+ min ago   (517+ words) SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom dismissed an escalating federal investigation into his administration, including the donations that paid for his travel, saying it was retribution for his criticism of President Trump and his policies. Newsom’s response comes after a report in…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1695+ words) California prison towns made a grim bargain decades ago. They built their economies around an industry that relied on an ever-growing prison population, mostly from California’s major metropolitan areas. Then, about 15 years ago, legislators changed sentencing laws in ways that…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1410+ words) Gavin Newsom, the California governor who loves to heckle Donald Trump and talk about the “big swings” he’s taken at policy while in office, is now a lame duck. Within a few short months, he will be termed out of…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (574+ words) SACRAMENTO — Labor leader Dave Regan claimed Friday that he was the victim of a “smear” campaign orchestrated in part by wealthy Californians and said he has been falsely accused of attempting to “extort” an endorsement of the billionaire tax ballot…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (404+ words) California has officially run out of combinations for its current license plate sequence, ending a string of plates dating back to the 1980s. The state’s license plate sequence for the past 46 years has consisted of one number, followed by three letters,…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (465+ words) WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security drew backlash over an AI-generated social media post featuring a Sikh man facing off against a character made to look like Optimus Prime from the movie “Transformers.” The agency later deleted the image. Posted…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (481+ words) Los Angeles Times...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (480+ words) Hollywood’s film and TV post-production workers took their case directly to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday, urging him to sign a bill that would create the state’s first standalone post-production tax incentive. Workers like editors, singers and sound supervisors joined…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (209+ words) Letters to the Editor: It’s absurd to think that Prop. 40 will drive out all of our billionaires Los Angeles Times To the editor: Of course, the proposed billionaire tax cannot and was never intended to solve all of California’s…...