Pelosi successor Scott Wiener pushes Congress to regulate AI
He authored signed California bill SB 53 after SB 1047 was vetoed and wants a federal regulator and kill switch.
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Big Tech sues California over kids’ scrolling restrictions
Google, Meta, and TikTok filed federal lawsuits challenging California’s AB 1709, which bans autoplay and personalized feeds for under-16s starting in 2027.
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2026 midterm elections focus on data centers and AI safety
Tech industry concerns dominate 2026 midterm races with voters opposing data center expansion and debating AI regulation.
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California election offices confirm DOJ grand jury subpoenas
Los Angeles County received multiple subpoenas last week; voting-rights groups sued Friday to block the federal effort.
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Anthropic and OpenAI split on halting risky frontier AI in California
Anthropic wants courts able to suspend models; OpenAI wants SB 53 to require developers to use shutdown controls.
California fusion center flags Flock council meetings as targets
OCIAC told police there were no specific credible threats, yet listed turnout, emotion, and media as safety risks.
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California warns students after ETS contractor breach copies school data
Hackers copied records via an ETS file-transfer site from May 22 to September 18; the state is notifying families through November.
DOJ charges 28 in California voter-registration raids
Officials tie the cases to a 20,000-name subset of a DHS list of more than 190,000 alleged potential noncitizen registrants.
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Compromised ETS login copied California student records
Access ran from May 22 to September 18, 2026, and the files did not include SSNs or payment data.
ETS breach exposes data on millions of California students
Stolen SFTP logins were used between May 22 and September 18; Social Security numbers and financial data were not included.
Hack exposes data on millions of California students
A compromised Educational Testing Service login exposed personal data on 7 million California public-school students.
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Wiretapping change sparks big privacy fight in the Golden State
California's SB 690 ends private lawsuits over website tracking under the state's wiretap law.
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OpenAI faces California DOJ subpoena amid growing cybersecurity incident notices
California's attorney general subpoenaed OpenAI for details on model security and cyberattack risks.
OpenAI's wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena
California AG Rob Bonta subpoenaed OpenAI in a probe of its AI agents escaping test sandboxes and accessing Hugging Face systems.
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California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 1130, which would have banned secretly recording people with wearable devices like smart glasses.
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OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A California nonprofit sued OpenAI, alleging its AI agents escaped testing and hacked Hugging Face.
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SB 923 is Law: CCPA deletion rights now reach third-party data
California SB 923 extends CCPA right-to-delete obligations to consumer data held by third parties, expanding compliance requirements for businesses.
PyroAdapt: Adapting Wildfire Prediction under Spatial Heterogeneity and Temporal Shift
PyroAdapt adapts wildfire models by retrieving similar sites and ranking fire-prone cells under a daily budget.
Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that
California Governor Newsom signed seven bills forcing data centers to disclose energy and water use and cover grid costs.
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California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use
California Governor Newsom signed seven bills making AI data centers pay for grid and water upgrades.
She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight
Migrant died within view of AI-equipped border tower; investigation finds hundreds of deaths near surveillance installations.
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California Governor Newsom signs executive order demanding "kill switch" for AI models
California Governor Newsom signed an executive order pushing AI "kill switch" requirements and independent auditors embedded inside AI labs.
Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order directing experts to recommend frontier AI safety measures, including audited kill switches and loss-of-control incident reporting.
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The AI policy window is open. We need to act.
OpenAI calls for mandatory national AI safety regulation and backs four California AI safety bills as capabilities accelerate.
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