7+ hour, 9+ min ago   (152+ words) The city is separately developing uniform data-center standards covering issues such as energy sourcing, water consumption, air quality and backup generators. The standards are still being developed and should not be treated as established conditions for Hines. Their existence does,…...

6+ hour, 31+ min ago   (153+ words) An artificial intelligence startup that automates background checks for banks, law firms, and universities is moving its top brass to Boston after pulling in $56 million in new funding. Xapien announced the investment round this week, saying the money will fund…...

10+ hour, 9+ min ago   (332+ words) A 20-year-old Georgia man was booked into the Chatham County Detention Center after police say he used artificial intelligence to create fake accounts designed to make phony delivery orders look legitimate. Store managers at a major national retailer noticed something…...

2+ day, 3+ 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, 4+ hour ago   (406+ words) Berkeley-based Rigetti secures a $100 million CHIPS Act award, giving the U.S. government equity as it races to scale superconducting quantum chips....

2+ day, 5+ 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…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (453+ words) Hoodline Explore Our Cities & Metro Areas (A-Z) Chicago’s Parallel Works Deploys Compute Platform for DARPA Protein-Research Program Parallel Works, a Chicago company spun out of Argonne National Laboratory, and CoreWeave announced Sept. 9 that they had deployed a managed artificial-intelligence and…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (221+ words) A Fremont electronics manufacturer just spent $181 million buying up two office and production campuses in the East Bay, cementing its bet that demand for AI hardware will keep growing. WisLab EMS, the company behind the deals, now owns its longtime…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (155+ words) That academic pedigree gives the conference a degree of regional weight beyond a typical trade show. The Chaifetz School of Business, founded in 1910, is one of the oldest business schools west of the Mississippi, and the center also runs specialized…...

3+ day, 4+ 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…...