Tech interests have spent tens of millions of dollars this year on state legislative races alone. Industry advocates say they want to protect innovation from overregulation.

In San Jose, license plate cameras were credited with finding suspects in the manhunt for an armed burglar who was terrorizing a neighborhood, and with locating eight suspects in a fatal shooting in downtown San Jose during the June FIFA World Cup.

After California lawmakers voted to share driver license information with a national nonprofit database, the Trump administration sought trucker records from the organization.

Polls show voters are turning sharply against data centers and several bills to regulate the facilities are advancing in the California Legislature. Utilities and tech companies, meanwhile, are spending millions lobbying state officials.

Though the report names six high-risk systems in use today, California state agencies have used some for several years.

Leaders from the AFL-CIO, representing 2.3 million nationwide members, say Gov. Gavin Newsom needs to focus on the technology’s harms to win support for her presidential run.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is investigating the spread of AI-generated explicit imagery on Elon Musk's X social media platform, saying it is violating state law to create and distribute nonconsensual sexual AI images.

Since 2016, California enacted more AI regulations than any other state. The president’s new order against such laws worries state officials.

The company behind ChatGPT is converting to a for-profit company and settling an investigation by California’s attorney general, but the company could still exploit its charitable roots.

Most plans to regulate data centers died in the state’s Legislature this year, despite a nationwide backlash. Two surviving bills aim to promote disclosure of energy and water use.

Legislation to force Google’s Chrome web browser to safeguard personal data cleared the Legislature and headed to the governor’s desk Thursday.

A secretive appropriations process in the California Legislature killed or reined in three bills regulating the use of pricing algorithms, although some AI regulation survived the legislative axe, including a bill that would outlaw pricing software algorithm use in contracts.

A state report provided says 200 agencies reported no automation around sensitive decisions, ignoring the fact that some agencies report actions based on algorithms.

AI can help businesses charge you more based on how it evaluates your personal history and desires. California lawmakers want to end that price discrimination.

A spate of new bills in California and other states would protect consumers from electricity rate hikes that subsidize data centers.

The state’s attorney general asked the company how it plans to transfer assets out of its charitable nonprofit.