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The Trump administration cancelled $2 billion of research grants to University of California professors. Their legal team says it has proof that those terminations were unconstitutional.
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The State Lands Department is updating rules for companies that run cables through Oregon’s territorial sea and proposing higher fees to go to the Common School Fund.
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The top judge in Oregon’s Court of Appeals on Wednesday warned of “rapidly escalating” legal filings that likely contain fake information created by artificial intelligence.
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Recent studies show that data centers are creating uncertainty for the Pacific Northwest’s power grid, potentially creating massive gaps in energy leading to blackouts.
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Researchers at the University of Oregon put physics to the test, and came out with a mathematical solution for creating what they call the “ideal glass.”
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The jury awarded a family $3 million in the closely-watched case over Facebook and YouTube addiction.
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Lawsuits in California federal and state court are unearthing documents embarrassing to tech companies — and may be a tipping point into federal regulation.
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A tool called DROP lets California residents fill out a few forms to keep their personal data from being tracked or sold by data brokers.
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Common Sense Media had rival ballot initiatives designed to protect kids from chatbots. Now, they've merged their efforts.
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As talk of a possible AI bubble grows, so does uncertainty around an important source of California tax money.
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Proliferating AI is overloading our already overloaded power grids that are now buckling beneath skyrocketing computational demands to process all those bits and bytes so that we can have AI-generated pictures of Donald Trump hugging a kitten or riding astride a majestic lion as well as entirely AI-generated short films with thoughtful titles like Broccoligeddon and Drinking Gasoline.
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California showed it was serious about regulating Big Tech in 2025 — and Big Tech showed it was serious about coming to the statehouse and fighting back.
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Since 2016, California enacted more AI regulations than any other state. The president’s new order against such laws worries state officials.
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Floating solar could help meet clean-energy goals, but researchers found ecological trade-offs vary widely, showing why each reservoir may need its own environmental review.