Scared of artificial intelligence? New law forces makers to disclose disaster plans

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Tech companies that create large, advanced artificial intelligence models will soon have to share more information about how the models can impact society and give their employees ways to warn the rest of us if things go wrong. Starting January 1, a law […]

After ICE arrests come health scares for the detained

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. After five months in Adelanto, an immigration detention facility in Southern California’s high desert, Emma Marcela Crespin de Paz is home in Los Angeles. The 58-year-old food vendor was released in October after multiple hospitalizations while in federal custody.  Before she was detained,…

Newsom’s 911 debacle is California’s latest failed tech adoption

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Six years ago, shortly after the Legislature enacted his first state budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom embarked on a celebratory tour to tout the spending plan’s major provisions. Newsom’s last stop was in San Francisco, where he bragged about increasing fees on telephone service…