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Ben Allen Wants to Take on The Insurance Industry for You
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (110+ words) KQED Ben Allen Wants to Take on The Insurance Industry for You For the first time, voters in California will decide between two Democrats for insurance commissioner, a powerful position that regulates insurance rates and acts as a consumer advocate....
A New Anthropic Model Seeks to Test How AI Could Impact the US Economy
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (425+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. In one scenario, artificial intelligence provides a gentle boost to the economy, lifting growth rates with little effect on workers. At the other extreme, GDP…...
SF Renters Face Buyout Offers and Evictions as AI Boom Sends Prices Soaring
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (161+ words) KQED SF Renters Face Buyout Offers and Evictions as AI Boom Sends Prices Soaring Airdate: Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 9am Rents are shooting through the roof in San Francisco as the AI boom creates yet another new class of wealthy people. The…...
Newsom's Final Months: A Failed Deal and Regulating AI
1+ week, 1+ day ago (118+ words) KQED Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. Governor Gavin Newsom failed to strike a deal on wildfire liability with lawmakers in the state legislature this week after months of negotiations that…...
Forum From The Archives: Inside Silicon Valley's Race to Build a Home Robot
1+ week, 1+ day ago (168+ words) KQED Forum From The Archives: Inside Silicon Valley's Race to Build a Home Robot When investigative journalist Stephen Witt visited Silicon Valley’s 1X Technologies to meet a new home robot named Neo, he discovered a device full of contradictions: It was…...
Silicon Valley's Earliest Self Trackers
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1826+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. View the full episode transcript. Want to give us feedback on the show? Shoot us an email at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and…...
Ex-Google Engineer Gets Nearly 1 Year for Stealing AI Secrets
1+ week, 4+ day ago (752+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. A former Google software engineer found guilty of stealing the tech giant’s trade secrets was sentenced to just under a year in prison Tuesday. U.S....
Chatbots, Data Centers and Surveillance: 5 Silicon Valley Bills Land on Newsom???s Desk
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1325+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. California’s Legislative session ended at midnight on Monday, and numerous bills ranging from housing to healthcare to technology cleared both the Senate and the Assembly....
The Data Center Backlash Is Here??? and Big Tech Is Spending Big to Combat It
1+ week, 5+ day ago (966+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. Companies backing data center construction are flooding Sacramento with cash, hoping to stop or defang seven bills that would regulate the facilities as they head…...
Oakland Residents Continue Push Against Data Centers
1+ week, 6+ day ago (569+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. The Rev. Jeffrey Parker spoke almost sermon-like in front of more than a hundred people in his Oakland church this weekend, but it wasn’t the…...