Silicon Valley

June 22
Schumer outlines plan for how Senate will regulate AI
- National
- News
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a broad, open-ended plan for regulating artificial intelligence on Wednesday, describing AI as an unprecedented challenge for Congress that effectively has policymakers “starting from scratch.”

Pristine Villarreal
May 17May 17
How the CEO behind ChatGPT won over Congress
- National
- News
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seems to have achieved in a matter of hours what other tech execs have been struggling to do for years: He charmed the socks off Congress.

Pristine Villarreal
March 22March 22
A California bill aims to explicitly ban caste discrimination in the state
- National
- News
A California lawmaker has introduced a bill in the state Senate that would explicitly ban caste discrimination — the first such effort by a US state legislature.

Pristine Villarreal
March 21March 21
Google was beloved as an employer for years. Then it laid off thousands by email
- National
- News
On the morning of January 20, one Google employee had to call tech support after getting hit with an unusual error message when they tried to log in to their work system.

Pristine Villarreal
January 26January 26
Jan. 6 Committee failed to hold social media companies to account for their role in the Capitol attack, staffers and witnesses say
- National
- News
“There might be someone getting shot tomorrow.”

That was the warning from Twitter staff at an internal meeting on Jan. 5, 2021, the eve of the deadly attack on the US Capitol. It wasn’t the only stark warning Twitter management received ahead of the insurrection, according to two former Twitter employees who spoke to the House Jan. 6 Committee.

Pristine Villarreal
March 16March 16
Almost 7 million California residents ordered to shelter in place
- Community
- Coronavirus
(CNN) — Nearly seven million people living in a wide swath of Northern California, including Silicon Valley, are being ordered to shelter in place starting at midnight Monday night as authorities try to stop the novel coronavirus from spreading. Along with San Francisco, which previously announced its order, residents in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Marin, Alameda, and […]
March 02March 02
Apple will pay up to $500 million to settle lawsuit over slowing down older iPhones
- Entertainment
(CNN) — Apple will pay up to half a billion dollars to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it of slowing down older iPhone models to compel users to buy new ones. The proposed settlement agreement requires Apple to pay the owners of certain iPhone models $25 per affected device, totaling a minimum of $310 million and […]
February 03February 03
HALO Dx Center Offers Innovative Healthcare to the Coachella Valley
A new desert healthcare center is opening to enhance the wellbeing of residents in the Coachella Valley. HALO Dx, Inc. will enable valley residents to have quick and easy access to advanced diagnostics. This, in turn, will empower patients and permit more effectiveness in their medical treatment. Today HALO Dx held a ribbon-cutting ceremony with […]

Ceci Partridge

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