California continues to be the birthplace of ideas that complicate employment laws. True to form, it is the first state to adopt the concept of intersectionality in its anti-discrimination statutes.

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After a protracted battle with special interests, Governor Newsom vetoed bill SB 1047, a law that would have imposed ...

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Santa Ana is currently voting on a ballot measure on whether or not to allow undocumented immigrants to vote in all municipal ...

When California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill regulating artificial intelligence companies last month, many people in ...

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The suit accuses Lendistry of breaching a contractual obligation to protect the beneficiaries' data privacy by deploying AI technologies that harvested class members' business, behavioral and ...

AI development continues at a breakneck pace, but how fast is too fast?In this fireside chat at Disrupt 2024, U.S. AI Safety Institute Director Elizabeth Kelly and California state Senator Scott ...