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US Open: Inside the exclusive Los Angeles Country Club drawing the sporting world's attention this weekend

The U.S. Open is being hosted at the exclusive Los Angeles Country Club for the first time in the club's history, with the world getting an up-close look at one of the most mysterious golf courses in the country.




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Blumenthal says there's a 'real risk' in PGA and LIV merger: 'Want to get to the bottom of it'

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) discussed the Senate's investigation into the merger between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, saying there is a "real risk" with the proposed agreement.




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To find masked mob members who attacked UCLA camp, police are using Jan. 6 tactics

Campus police are scanning hundreds of images and using facial-recognition technology to identify the attackers. Similar tools were used to identify Jan. 6 attackers.




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Randy Travis releases new music with the help of AI after a stroke

Randy Travis has released a new song, "Where That Came From," with the help of artificial intelligence. It's his first single since he had a stroke.




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TikTok creators sue U.S. government in a bid to stop potential ban

TikTok creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, alleging a new law that could ban the app violates their free speech rights under the 1st Amendment. The legislation is meant to force Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the service.




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Scarlett Johansson also thinks OpenAI's new voice sounds like her. She's not happy about it

Johansson, who portrayed the voice of a computer program in 'Her,' was not behind OpenAI's 'Sky' voice assistant. Another actor provided the voice, OpenAI said.




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TikTok said to plan job cuts amid a wave of tech industry layoffs

TikTok plans to lay off employees this week, according to a report in the Information. The job cuts come as other companies have recently cut staff, including Apple and Google in California.




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What's behind the anti-Biden 'wildfire' among TikTok influencers

About a third of adults under 30 get their news from short, punchy videos on TikTok, and that's a big challenge for the Biden campaign.




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Inside the race to train more workers in the chip-making capital of the world

Taiwan, which makes one-fifth of the world's semiconductors, is facing a severe shortage of workers.




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In Silicon Valley, more support for Trump is trickling in. Is it a big threat to Biden?

In the deeply Democratic Silicon Valley, there are some defectors. They're setting their sights — and their money — on Trump in the 2024 election.




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California lawmakers revive debate over bill requiring tech platforms to pay for news

New amendments to the California Journalism Preservation Act aim to make it more like a similar law in Canada.




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Elon Musk blasts Apple's OpenAI deal over alleged privacy issues. Does he have a point?

The Tesla and SpaceX leader's beef with OpenAI flared up again after Apple unveiled its plans to use ChatGPT to support some of its AI features. Apple said privacy is a key component of its entry into the space.




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Phishing attack hits L.A. County public health agency, jeopardizing 200,000-plus residents' personal info

The personal information of more than 200,000 people in Los Angeles County was potentially exposed after a hacker used a phishing email to steal login credentials.




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Opinion: As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it?

Writers and other creators see OpenAI's forthcoming Media Manager as an attempt to evade responsibility for the theft of intellectual property.




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California lawmakers are trying to regulate AI before it's too late. Here's how

California lawmakers are trying to get ahead of AI in the workplace, but are already playing catchup




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Foundation honoring 'Star Trek' creator offers million-dollar prize to develop AI that's 'used for good'

The Gene Roddenberry foundation will award $1 million to an early-stage venture focused on harnessing artificial intelligence in service of humanity.




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How Santa Clara chipmaker Nvidia became one of the world's most valuable companies in the AI boom

Santa Clara chipmaker Nvidia has ridden the AI revolution to briefly vault over Microsoft and Apple and become the world's most valuable company.




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Will Google strike a deal with California news outlets to fund journalism?

California news publishers and Big Tech companies appear to be inching toward compromise on legislation requiring digital platforms to pay news outlets.




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California lawmakers advance tax on Big Tech to help fund news industry

The bill would tax Amazon, Meta and Google for the data they take from users and pump the money into news organizations in the form of tax credits.




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Keke Palmer defends Angela Simmons over controversial post with Oreo-filled bathtub

Keke Palmer defends Angela Simmons after the reality TV star faces scrutiny for her promotional post featuring a video of her lounging in an Oreo-filled bathtub.




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This country banned TikTok. What became of its influencers?

Worried about a TikTok ban? Here's how one country dealt with it




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Why some Silicon Valley investors are backing the Trump-Vance campaign

Some Silicon Valley investors are vocally backing Trump due to concerns about how the government is regulating cryptocurrency, its policies on AI and the threat of an increase in capital gains taxes.




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California lawmakers continue push to regulate social media despite legal hurdles

California's efforts to protect children from the harms of social media have faced legal challenges from the tech industry.




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How much does your city know about you? This Southern California city opens up

Long Beach's digital rights platform consists of data privacy notices for about 20 unique city-deployed technologies that collect personally identifiable information.




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U.S. Olympian couldn't pay her rent. Flavor Flav and Alexis Ohanian took care of it

Veronica Fraley, a U.S. discus thrower at the Paris Olympics, was having financial trouble back home. Flavor Flav and Alexis Ohanian helped pay off her rent for the year.




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Justice Department sues TikTok for allegedly violating child privacy laws

In a sweeping lawsuit, the Dept. of Justice on Friday accused TikTok of illegally collecting information on minors without their parents' permission.




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After a glitchy start, Trump encounters a sympathetic interviewer in Elon Musk

Former President Trump returned to X, formerly Twitter, posting multiple videos as he seeks to rebuild momentum for his flagging campaign.




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Trump posted a fake Taylor Swift image. AI and deepfakes are only going to get worse this election cycle

The surge in deepfake images and videos online of U.S. presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have raised questions over whether the false information could impact the election.




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Opinion: How bringing back the woolly mammoth could save species that still walk the Earth

The 'de-extinction' company Colossal and the conservation group Re:wild found common ground in the potential of genetic technology to rescue today's disappearing creatures.




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California is racing to combat deepfakes ahead of the election

California lawmakers want to strengthen protections against digitally altered media ahead of the Nov. 5 election, but questions about enforcement linger.




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Online fraudster on the loose after bilking investors out of millions with fake inventions, websites

Santa Clara County fraudster Dennis Fountaine fled sentencing last month. Fountaine was convicted of three felony counts of grand theft by fraud. He also admitted to the aggravated white-collar enhancement for defrauding four victims of over $350,000.




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A new book chronicles the battle over AI, but fails to question whether AI is worth battling over

Bloomberg's Parmy Olson delivers a buzzy, timely biography of AI's promoters, but what are they promoting?




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'How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter' authors say platform is 'a tool for controlling political discourse'

'Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter' explores what went wrong under the entrepreneur's ownership of the social media platform.




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'A stab in the back.' How Elon Musk's decision to move X from San Francisco is stirring mixed emotions

X, formerly known as Twitter, is closing its headquarters in San Francisco and moving some of its San Francisco employees to San José and Palo Alto. The departure is another blow to a city that has been buffeted by high-profile business departures.




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How AI might help researchers make esophageal cancer less deadly

To improve survival for esophageal cancer patients, researchers are using artificial intelligence to improve screening for the disease.




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A computer on your face? Snap and others still trying to make augmented reality glasses a reality

Tech giants including Meta, Snap, Google and others are racing to build smart glasses. It could change our lives for the better or worse.




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Gov. Newsom signs AI-related bills regulating Hollywood actor replicas and deep fakes

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed bills that offer actors more AI protections and address AI-generated false content in political ads.




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Opinion: California's AI safety bill is under fire. Making it law is the best way to improve it

If Gov. Newsom vetoes SB 1047, the forces of anti-regulation — AI companies — will have little incentive to work on alternatives.




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California's digital driver's licenses now work with Apple Wallet

Californians can now securely add their digital driver's license or state ID to the Apple Wallet app on their iPhone and Apple Watch, the company announced Thursday.




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Mark Hamill, Jane Fonda, J.J. Abrams urge Gov. Newsom to sign AI safety bill

Hollywood celebrities, including "Star Wars" star Mark Hamill, director J.J. Abrams and SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher sign a letter urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign AI safety bill SB 1047.




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Elon Musk's X says it's policing harmful content as scrutiny of the platform grows

X, formerly Twitter, released a formal global transparency report Wednesday for the first time since Musk took over the social media platform.




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Southern California's hottest commercial real estate market is for tenants that aren't human

As artificial intelligence and cloud storage hoover up more and more space on the nation's computer servers, real estate developers are racing to build new data centers or convert existing buildings to data uses.




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New laws close gap in California on deepfake child pornography

Two bills newly signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom outlaw the possession and distribution of sexually charged images of minors even when they're created with computers, not cameras.




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Judge blocks California law that targeted deepfake campaign ads

AB 2839 aimed to label AI-generated content in political ads as "manipulated." A federal judge says the law violates the 1st Amendment.




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Sonos tries to get its groove back after upsetting loyal customers

Sonos, known for its wireless speakers, has a plan to earn back trust from its customers after the botched launch of a new app angered its fans as competition with Google, Apple and other companies heats up.




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Facing skepticism, Elon Musk unveils prototype for driverless robotaxi

Elon Musk unveiled the Cybercab on Thursday night at a highly anticipated event, where he also showed off new protoypes of a robovan and humanoid robot.




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Judge approves Fisker bankruptcy plan favored by car owners

Fisker Inc. will wind down operations under a bankruptcy plan approved Friday that should allow owners to drive their cars for years. But it will not pay anything to shareholders wiped out investing in the defunct Southern California electric-vehicle maker.




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Elon Musk hoped Trump would 'sail into the sunset.' Now he works frenetically to elect him

The world's richest man once said Donald Trump's character didn't 'reflect well' on the U.S. Now Elon Musk is touring the country, and spending big, to put Trump and other Republicans in power.




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FTC adopts 'click to cancel' rule to make it easier to end subscriptions, mirroring California law

A divided FTC adopted a powerful rule that requires companies to make it just as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one.




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AI is supposed to be Hollywood's next big thing. What's taking so long?

As AI technology advances, industry observers expect to see more deals between tech companies and studios and talent. But major challenges remain.