The Isle of AI: Tech promised a better future. These Bay Area cities think it’s already here
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Oakland highlighted several issue areas where AI will be used to improve services.
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UC Berkeley startups fuel hundreds of jobs, millions in local payroll, research reveals
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Study quantifies the local economic benefits of the university’s entrepreneurial “ecosystem.”Bay Area
California recruits teens to help advise on state’s AI and technology decisions
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Nominate a student to the newly launched California Teen Tech Council.Technology
Would you trust your boss with data about your brain? California moves to regulate neurotech
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Brain sensors are advancing, and California companies, lawmakers and unions are jockeying to shape how the resulting data can be used.featured
Stanford drops Flock license plate cameras after campus pushback, will use Genetec
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Students’ discomfort with Flock is part of a broader trend of backlash against the company.Featured in Category
As AI ‘therapists’ dish out advice, California lawmakers try to set some limits
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The bill is backed by professional associations that represent psychologists, therapists and counselors.Elections
California begins enforcing new transparency rules for AI-generated online content
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The implementation was timed to coincide with regulators in the EU and reflects close coordination between the two governments.Technology
‘Don’t Flock me’: California, U.S. lawmakers debate license plate reader technology
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They’re all over our roads and really good at helping police solve crimes, but do California’s automated license plate readers need limits?health
Kaiser used an algorithm — not clinicians — to triage mental health patients, a union alleges
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The complaint lands in the middle of contract negotiations between the healthcare union and Kaiser Northern California, which have dragged on for more than a year without an agreement.California
California law ensures humans, not AI, are teaching K-12 students
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The bill amended the California education code to make clear that school staff and contractors in public schools must be “natural people.”Bay Area
