The California legislation would have required tech companies to test AI for harm to society. It attracted opposition from numerous members of Congress and major AI companies including Google, Meta, and OpenAI.

California is the seventh U.S. state to adopt mobile driver’s licenses for iPhones, part of a growing push by businesses and governments to make digital IDs commonplace.

Google, Meta, ChatGPT and other Silicon Valley firms have been lobbying heavily against the bill, warning it will hurt new tech growth.

Instead, lawmakers agreed to tech firms’ proposal to help local newsrooms and explore artificial intelligence.

The sprawling bill that offers protection to whistleblowers and citizens was approved 32-1 by the state Senate in May faces a vote in the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday and must win final approval by Aug. 31 to reach Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk this year. 

Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge’s decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major ripple effects.

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram faced allegations that it had collected facial identification information on millions of users in violation of a state law.

Google’s chat bot equivocated on pedophilia, conservatives say, and ChatGPT gave husbands a pass on doing the dishes. Is AI ready to serve as our moral compass?

Lawmakers in California and elsewhere can no longer take the tech industry's word when their armies of lobbyists make the case that they police themselves and shouldn't be held accountable.

A journalism expert says Assembly Bill 886 would finally give news outlets leverage and force Big Tech to negotiate. A public interest media advocate says the proposal would favor larger outlets and incentivize clickbait.

The ruling did not affect other claims in the antitrust case about Google's  search engine, which is scheduled to go to trial next month.

The 40-acre piece of land was purchased by Google in 2019 with the goal of growing trees in an environmentally sound way for its future and current campuses.

Mark Zuckerberg has used Meta’s might to push Threads to a fast start — but that may only work up to a point. In less than a day, Threads appeared to have taken the crown as the most rapidly downloaded app ever, easily outstripping ChatGPT. The newly released companion to Instagram aims at offering users an alternative to Twitter. 

The lawsuit alleges that Google leverages control over online advertising, driving out competition and receiving profits that far exceed what could be made in a competitive market.

Mayor Matt Mahan tried to reassure the public that Google remains committed to San Jose in the long term, and San Jose is committed to Google.

The Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit, which California, New York and six other states joined, was the fifth by U.S. officials against the company for anticompetitive practices since 2020.