One of the tech companies’ biggest wins is blocking legislation that would have regulated industry data centers’ massive energy use. But lawmakers say they’ll try to legislate on this issue again next year.
Anthropic’s $1.5 billion deal with authors whose books were part of a pirated database could benefit several US Supreme Court justices and US presidents.
Amazon Web Services’ 15-hour outage last week exposed the global economy’s growing dependence on a few dominant cloud providers and showed how little companies can do to protect themselves when critical services go down.
A ballot initiative that would impose a one-time 5% tax on California billionaires’ wealth that advocates say could bring in about $100 billion to cover state health-care costs.
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California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest public pension plan in the US, is planning to vote against
One of the tech companies’ biggest wins is blocking legislation that would have regulated industry data centers’ massive energy use. But lawmakers say they’ll try to legislate on this issue again next year.
Sandford Frey joined Stinson LLP as a partner in Los Angeles in the bankruptcy and creditors’ rights practice division, the firm announced Oct. 23.
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The consulting sector has been buffeted by headwinds in key markets from the UK and China to
Bret Taylor, who helped shape Google and Facebook and now runs a $10 billion AI customer service startup, thinks Silicon Valley will be just fine.
Opposition to employers’ use of “stay-or-pay” contracts has gotten traction in state legislatures this year, led by California and New York, as federal regulators retreat from efforts to rein in the agreements nationwide.
Character.AI’s announcement that it will ban users under 18 from conversing with chatbots is generating questions about the company’s planned age verification process and potentially broader chatbot harms, even as child safety advocates praised the move.
A few dozen California cities have lucrative deals with retail giants like Apple, Best Buy, and Nike. These deals result in the cities paying millions of dollars from their local tax revenue back to the companies. In this video, we explore how these deals work and what some city and state lawmakers are hoping to do about it.