The costs of leaving the California Environmental Quality Act intact became too high. Newsom confronted the issue squarely, ushering reforms.

Scott Wiener, called for developers of major AI models to adopt stringent safety measures, including auditing, reporting, and ...

After a decade of intense debating California overhauls CEQA, its landmark environmental law with hopes of making the state more affordable to live.

The Senate Tuesday narrowly passed the Big Beautiful Bill full of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises —promises that ...

In the report, the working group advised policymakers to encourage AI developers to disclose more information about the data ...

If an AI is powerful enough to make beneficial scientific discoveries, it's also capable of being used for harm, OpenAI says.

The California Report on Frontier Policy outlines new plans for AI guardrails that could be implemented as state law.

The crux of Newsom’s problem with SB 1047 was that it simply targeted all large models, regardless of risk profile, instead of focusing on high-risk models of all sizes.

Democrats wanted to file a discharge petition to try to force a Helene bill with $435 million in relief funding out of Senate committee.

An emotional Senator Padilla took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to discuss the charged scene from last week when officials forced him out of an event with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

According to Newsom, there is no existing agency that could implement the bill, though SB 1403 would have created one. In May 2024, CalMatters reported that members of the CLBC sent a letter to Newsom ...

A month after Newsom said he wanted concessions from public employee unions to help balance the state budget, the union representing California prison guards struck a new labor agreement that gives ...