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Gov. Newsom Signs Sweeping New Rules for Online Child Safety
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (724+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of online child safety bills Thursday, enacting some of the strongest protections for young users in the country. Assembly…...
A New Anthropic Model Seeks to Test How AI Could Impact the US Economy
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (425+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. In one scenario, artificial intelligence provides a gentle boost to the economy, lifting growth rates with little effect on workers. At the other extreme, GDP…...
Newsom's Final Months: A Failed Deal and Regulating AI
1+ week, 2+ day ago (118+ words) KQED Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. Governor Gavin Newsom failed to strike a deal on wildfire liability with lawmakers in the state legislature this week after months of negotiations that…...
Forum From The Archives: Inside Silicon Valley's Race to Build a Home Robot
1+ week, 2+ day ago (168+ words) KQED Forum From The Archives: Inside Silicon Valley's Race to Build a Home Robot When investigative journalist Stephen Witt visited Silicon Valley’s 1X Technologies to meet a new home robot named Neo, he discovered a device full of contradictions: It was…...
Silicon Valley's Earliest Self Trackers
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1826+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. View the full episode transcript. Want to give us feedback on the show? Shoot us an email at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and…...
Ex-Google Engineer Gets Nearly 1 Year for Stealing AI Secrets
1+ week, 5+ day ago (752+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. A former Google software engineer found guilty of stealing the tech giant’s trade secrets was sentenced to just under a year in prison Tuesday. U.S....
The Data Center Backlash Is Here??? and Big Tech Is Spending Big to Combat It
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (966+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. Companies backing data center construction are flooding Sacramento with cash, hoping to stop or defang seven bills that would regulate the facilities as they head…...
Oakland Residents Continue Push Against Data Centers
2+ week, 16+ hour ago (569+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. The Rev. Jeffrey Parker spoke almost sermon-like in front of more than a hundred people in his Oakland church this weekend, but it wasn’t the…...
AI Agents Are Turning Marxist Under Stress
2+ week, 5+ day ago (261+ words) In an effort to study how AI agents respond to different working conditions, three researchers ran an experiment: one set of AI agents received grinding work to complete while another set received light work. When the agents with the grinding…...
Historian Jill Lepore Warns Against Letting Robots Take Over Our Democracy
2+ week, 5+ day ago (117+ words) KQED Historian Jill Lepore Warns Against Letting Robots Take Over Our Democracy Airdate: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 9 am In her new book, “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore issues a warning…...