Silicon Valley has always been known for causing disruption. But now, it’s getting disrupted itself.

California’s political watchdog staff accused former Assemblymember Evan Low of concealing payments to actor Alec Baldwin for appearing at a 2020 fundraiser for Low, plus multiple other campaign finance violations.

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

The results of a five-year state probe laid out dozens of potential violations by Evan Low involving a non-profit tech foundation for which he raised a half-million dollars. The investigation began after CalMatters published an investigation into the relationship between Low, the foundation and its donors.

Today, artificial intelligence infrastructure is dominated by just three companies: Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

A supermajority of Democrats and emboldened Republicans returned to the Capitol this week — at odds over the cost of living, the Trump presidency, state spending, tech innovations and reparations for descendants of people once enslaved.

Two of Google’s A.I. researchers, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper,  shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, just hours after the Justice Department started spelling out plans that could lead to its break up.

California was nearly $2 billion over forecast in corporate tax receipts this summer, including by $844 million in July. A tax change meant to help the budget deficit helped drive the surge.

Dennis Fountaine, convicted in May defrauding four victims of over $350,000 never showed up for his Aug. 5 sentencing in Santa Clara County Superior Court.

Anukool Lakhina of San Jose, CEO of Burnbot, is one of dozens of high-tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who are trying to use new forms of technology to solve the problem of mega-wildfires in the age of climate change.

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are setting up firms across the Pacific, only to find that any investment with Chinese ties is a hard sell.

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

The merger combines 62 attorneys from Hopkins Carley, a leading San Jose law firm,with Lathrop GPM’s 300 lawyers, into a single coast-to-coast firm under the Lathrop GPM name with approximate annual revenues of $250 million.

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. 

Compared with the calls for cat ladies, white dudes and others, the group of venture capitalists supporting the Vice President was small, at around 600.

Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman and other tech billionaires, many of whom are part of the “PayPal Mafia,” are openly brawling with one another over politics as tensions rise in the presidential campaign.