California

US state. Home to Silicon Valley + the bulk of frontier-AI HQ presence (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Apple, Meta, Nvidia HQ).

51 mentions · 29 days · first seen Apr 1, 2026 · last seen May 10, 2026

Often alongside: OpenAI · Sam Altman · Elon Musk · Microsoft · Donald Trump · xAI · Google · Anthropic

Timeline

May 2026 16 stories · 9 days

May 10, 2026 2 stories

36California's ugly succession war hangs over Gavin Newsom Axios
32GM agrees to pay $12.75 million to settle California suit over misuse of customers' driving data Engadget

May 9, 2026 2 stories

52There’s a Long-Shot Proposal to Protect California Workers From AI Wired
48They’ve shown this in small ways, and it’s about the big swings from here Fortune Technology

May 8, 2026 1 story

42Rosie Campbell joined the firm’s AGI readiness team in 2021 TechCrunch AI

May 7, 2026 1 story

42‘Highly qualified White, Asian, and other students were disputed admission’: DOJ accuses UCLA of discrimination Fortune Technology

May 6, 2026 2 stories

54Apple has agreed to pay some iPhone buyers a collective $250m (£184m) to end a lawsuit accusing the company BBC Technology
51Former OpenAI board member confirms Elon Musk offered her sperm donations BBC Technology

May 5, 2026 3 stories

47Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear The Register
42Elon Musk’s only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race TechCrunch AI
36What to Know About Sony’s $7.85 Million PlayStation Settlement Wired

May 3, 2026 1 story

47Musk testimony dominated first week Musk v. Altman. 'You can't just steal a charity' CNBC Technology

May 2, 2026 2 stories

53Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk confirms he was duped, signals AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI’s models MIT Technology Review
48Amazon’s assembled-in AI price history scales up to show the entire last year The Verge

May 1, 2026 2 stories

April 2026 35 stories · 20 days

April 30, 2026 3 stories

58Left: The graphs show Google’s forecasted hospitalizations across California for flu, COVID-19 and RSV starting in November 2025 Google Research
44On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets TechCrunch AI
44Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages The Register

April 29, 2026 3 stories

50Musk and Altman were reportedly published by a Silicon Valley investor in 2012 BBC Technology
48Elon Musk testifies against OpenAI, seeking Sam Altman's ouster NPR Technology
47Musk confirms basis of charitable giving at stake in OpenAI suit BBC Technology

April 28, 2026 4 stories

60Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in court over OpenAI’s founding mission The Guardian Technology
48Musk argues that Altman and Brockman breached OpenAI’s charitable trust by creating a closed-source, for-profit subsidiary MIT Technology Review
48Cole Allen Charged With Attempting to Assassinate Trump Wired
35Judge in Musk v. Altman seats nine-person jury CNBC Technology

April 27, 2026 3 stories

48The bitter rivalry between two of the tech world’s most powerful men arrives in court this week The Guardian Technology
46Both departed- and right-wing accounts argued, without evidence, that the attack was staged Wired
41Sergey Brin confronted Gavin Newsom at a treehouse party, then published a political war Fortune Technology

April 26, 2026 1 story

47Musk drops fraud argues against OpenAI, Altman ahead of trial Fortune Technology

April 25, 2026 1 story

37Why are top university websites serving porn Ars Technica

April 24, 2026 2 stories

April 23, 2026 1 story

47New York has banned state employees from using insider information to trade on prediction markets Wired

April 22, 2026 1 story

39Many industry watchers believe AI agents will become the primary way people interact with services TechCrunch AI

April 20, 2026 1 story

46The 2028 Democratic primary is coming for hopefuls' joins forces with too Axios

April 19, 2026 1 story

48What xAI and OpenAI Should Buy Next The Information

April 13, 2026 1 story

41Eric Swalwell’s abrupt exit from the race for California governor left his rivals scrambling to lock down his former supporters Fortune Technology

April 11, 2026 2 stories

April 10, 2026 2 stories

44He picks up his hands in front of him like a sleepwalker and puts a sheet on his bed MIT Technology Review
31Artemis II astronauts hurtle home from moon toward splashdown CNBC Technology

April 8, 2026 1 story

37Jamie Dimon signalled high taxes would push business out of New York, but the city is honing its edge over Miami in attracting Fortune Technology

April 7, 2026 1 story

46The code for Axplorer is open source and available via GitHub MIT Technology Review

April 6, 2026 1 story

41How GPT-5 helped mathematician Ernest Ryu solve a 40-year-old open problem OpenAI

April 4, 2026 2 stories

45Athletics play the Astros with 1-0 series lead Associated Press Technology
37Ordenan evacuaciones por incendio forestal en el sur de California Associated Press Technology

April 3, 2026 3 stories

38Coristine, who joined DOGE at 19 years old with no prior government experience Wired
37California cements its role as the national testing ground for AI rules Axios
33Inside the stealthy company that pitched brainless human clones MIT Technology Review

April 1, 2026 1 story

40Lawsuit says Taylor Swift's 'Showgirl' pose comes too close to the work of a real one Associated Press Technology