2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (115+ words) The new laws build on California's earlier 2025 tech package. Hoodline previously reported that Newsom signed Assembly Bill 243 in October 2025, requiring companion chatbot platforms to establish procedures for detecting and managing user expressions of self-harm. While California pressed ahead, Congress continued…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (188+ words) Chris Larsen, the Ripple co-founder who has backed San Francisco's police surveillance buildout, is facing scrutiny over support for surveillance technology like Flock Safety's automated license-plate readers. Larsen has praised San Francisco's approach of deploying drones only when there is…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (155+ words) Santa Clara County now has 75 data centers, enough to rank second among all U.S. counties, and its 23% growth rate from 2025 to 2026 was the fastest among the five U.S. counties with the most data centers. The surge comes as the county's median home…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (153+ words) None of the posts disclosed that the Austin image was AI-generated, a detail with legal significance in Arizona. Turning Point activists later deleted the deepfake posts, and Turning Point USA did not respond to Phoenix New Times' request for comment....

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (636+ words) Hoodline Explore Our Cities & Metro Areas (A-Z) OpenAI Says AI Swarm Cracked 90-Year-Old Math Puzzle, Rivals Cry Foul OpenAI announced on Tuesday that an unreleased internal model, running roughly 10,000 coordinated AI agents, produced a proof concerning a forced formulation of…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (156+ words) The same August 21 filing showed the Pelosi household didn't stop at Bloom Energy. On July 24, the account also purchased 10,000 shares of Intel Corporation and 50 Intel call options with a $50 strike price, also expiring June 17, 2027 — a broader tech-options strategy executed the…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (120+ words) A hiker who trusted Google Maps as his only guide through Linville Gorge ended up spending a cold, foodless night stranded off-trail, deep in one of North Carolina's most rugged wilderness areas, before rescuers reached him the next morning. Officials…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (112+ words) Air Products, an industrial gas company, is expanding its South Korean operations. As reported by KED Global, the company signed a supply contract and will bring facilities online in phases through 2030, making Pyeongtaek a major site for its global electronics…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (272+ words) Getting a competition robot from Medellín to Houston is not simple. The team disassembled some robot parts for the airplane trip and reassembled the machine once they arrived, per Colombia One's reporting. The team is organized into mechanics, programming and…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (306+ words) The incident occurred last month, and Anthropic later called SFPD about it, according to reporting by The San Francisco Standard. The Claude user, who has not been identified by the Standard because he has not been arrested or charged, later…...