California

California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Verizon's $10B Frontier acquisition; deliberations included Verizon committing to CA's DEI requirements (thedesk.net)
2026-1-16 California

California AG Rob Bonta launches an investigation into xAI over the proliferation of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by Grok (www.politico.com)
2026-1-15 California

California's Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-14 California

Gov. Gavin Newsom has engaged in months of negotiations to neutralize a proposed California wealth tax ballot initiative; a compromise does not appear imminent (www.politico.com)
2026-1-14 Tax California

A late-2025 amendment to California's wealth tax proposal treats founder control as ownership, a move that could end founder-controlled startups in the state (www.piratewires.com)
2026-1-13 Tax Startup California

Sources and filings: Peter Thiel donated $3M to a group to beat California's wealth tax, the first of several expected major donations by tech leaders in 2026 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-12 Tax California

California bans data broker reselling health data of millions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-12 California

OpenAI and kids safety group Common Sense Media partner to consolidate competing measures for a California ballot initiative meant to protect kids from chatbots (www.axios.com)
2026-1-10 chatbot California

California Lawmaker Proposes a Four-Year Ban On AI Chatbots In Kids' Toys (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8 AI chatbot Ban California

Filing: Larry Page moved assets out of California ahead of the proposed CA wealth tax, meeting an end-of-2025 deadline; a source said he has left the state (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-7 Tax Asset California

Jensen Huang says he isn't concerned about a billionaires tax under consideration in California, and plans to remain in Silicon Valley (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Tax California

Google's $250M Deal with California to Fund Newsrooms May Be Stalled (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-4 Google California

California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents request the deletion of their personal data from over 500 registered data brokers (www.pcmag.com)
2026-1-3 California

A look at US tech laws rolling out in 2026, including California's SB 53 AI transparency law and Virginia's new social media limits for minors, effective today (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-2 AI California Virginia

Thiel Capital opens an office in Miami, as Peter Thiel and others reportedly look to cut ties with California over a proposed ballot measure to tax billionaires (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-1 Tax California

California To Require All School Districts To Restrict Student Smartphone Use by 2026 (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-1 California

California's New Law Outlawing Criticism of Israel Quashes Academic Freedom, Criminalizes Teachers (www.juancole.com)
2025-12-23 Israel California

Vince Zampella, former CEO of Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty, died Sunday at 55 in a single-car crash in Southern California (www.nbclosangeles.com)
2025-12-23 California

California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries (www.juancole.com)
2025-12-20 Solar California

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53 (www.axios.com)
2025-12-20 AI New York California

California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details (sfstandard.com)
2025-12-20 Facebook California

California DMV says a California administrative law judge recently ruled Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-17 Tesla California

Sources: the NY governor proposes a rewrite of the RAISE Act, the AI bill that recently passed NY legislature, with text copied verbatim from California's SB 53 (www.transformernews.ai)
2025-12-12 AI California

Waymo says California authorized it to operate across the entire Bay Area and Sacramento, and between LA and San Diego, where it plans to expand to in mid-2026 (www.sfchronicle.com)
2025-11-24 California

Changes to CISA have left some states without support during elections; California said CISA provided little support during the Nov. 4 election on redistricting (apnews.com)
2025-11-24 California

California man admits to laundering crypto stolen in $230M heist (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-19 California

In a lawsuit, California-based TP-Link says Netgear orchestrated a smear by planting false claims with journalists and influencers about TP-Link's China ties (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-19 China California

California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech (www.juancole.com)
2025-11-16 Israel California

A California federal jury says Apple must pay Masimo $634M for infringing a blood-oxygen patent used in Watch workout and heart-rate alerts; Apple will appeal (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-15 Apple California

Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube sue California over a new law that prohibits personalized feeds for minors without parental consent, claiming it violates 1A (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2025-11-15 Google YouTube California

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