Jeremy White

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jeremy White |Christine Mui |Camille von Kaenel |Alex Nieves

SACRAMENTO, California — California leaders are still bracing for widespread damage despite President Donald Trump’s tariff reprieve. Major industries that power the nation’s largest economy — from almond growers counting on foreign buyers to Silicon Valley giants reliant on Chinese components — are still tremoring from Trump’s shifting trade policies. The economic uncertainty also threatens to tank the stock market, drying up state tax revenue for schools and health care.

Oct 1, 2024 | yahoo.com | Jeremy White |Lara Korte

California had a chance to set a national safety standard for artificial intelligence — but Gov. Gavin Newsom and Silicon Valley got in the way. Artificial intelligence vaulted to the top of Sacramento’s agenda this year as legislative Democrats concluded Congress was too divided and dysfunctional to keep up with the fast-developing technology. Dominating the debate was a bill by state Sen. Scott Wiener, an ambitious San Francisco Democrat with an eye on Rep.

Sep 17, 2024 | yahoo.com | Lara Korte |Jeremy White

SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Tuesday that would protect actors from being replaced by digital imposters — even after their death — without their consent, in a win for Hollywood stars warning about the risks of artificial intelligence.

Sep 5, 2024 | msn.com | Jeremy White

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Sep 5, 2024 | yahoo.com | Jeremy White

SACRAMENTO, California — Sacramento’s ambitions of reining in tech just collided with political reality. Legislators entered the year determined to act on artificial intelligence and social media. California’s homegrown technology industry responded by flexing its lobbying muscles, beating back much of Democrats’ regulatory agenda by diluting and sidelining bills meant to protect kids from social media, root out biased algorithms and divert some of platforms’ profits toward journalists.