While AI is often cited as one of the reasons for mass layoffs, particularly in the tech sector, for fast-growing companies it also seems to be creating new…
Read more Want an AI-proof job? New research says you may be safer at companies embracing the technologyFor the trendiest tenants in Hollywood office buildings, it’s the latest fad that goes way beyond designer furniture and art: mini studios To capitalize on the never-ending flow…
Read more The newest trend in L.A. office space: In-house studios for traveling influencersRecently, I asked Claude, an artificial-intelligence thingy at the center of a standoff with the Pentagon, if it could be dangerous in the wrong hands. Say, for example,…
Read more Commentary: The Pentagon is demanding to use Claude AI as it pleases. Claude told me that’s ‘dangerous’In a rare moment of political alignment last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Trump vowed to crack down on corporate home buying. Now, a new bill aims…
Read more Newsom and Trump have vowed to crack down on corporate home buying. A new bill aims to curb itL.A.’s Westside is finally getting its first Ikea outpost. The furniture company known for its Swedish meatballs and blocky “Kallax” shelving units has found a home inside the…
Read more A sprawling Culver City space will soon be home to IkeaCasey Wasserman, the chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, is selling his eponymous talent agency in the wake of the release of emails between himself…
Read more LA Olympics leader Wasserman will sell talent agency in wake of Epstein emails discoverySouthern Californians out on Saturday night for Valentine’s Day took a break from staring longingly into each other’s eyes to gaze at something else: a SpaceX rocket blazing…
Read more Southern California sky is lit up by Valentine’s Day SpaceX launchSACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom told world leaders Friday that President Trump’s retreat from efforts to combat climate change would decimate the U.S. automobile industry and surrender the future economic…
Read more Newsom tells world leaders Trump’s retreat on the environment will mean economic harmPlans for a new water park at Cal Expo appear to be slip-sliding away.Water park fans have been dreaming for years of a return to the site of…
Read more Cal Expo says California Dreamin’ broke water park contract with missed paymentTikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American entity, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the United States that has been in discussion for…
Read more TikTok finalizes a deal to form a new American entitySome of the things people buy the most are at their most expensive point of the year as the calendar changes over to 2026. Our get the facts…
Read more Amazon CEO warns prices have gone up from tariffsThe battle over a new tax on California’s billionaires is set to heat up in the coming months as citizens spar over whether the state should squeeze its…
Read more Explaining California’s billionaire tax: The proposals, the backlash and the exodusWhen former Space X engineer Josh Giegel launched his North Hollywood tech company Gambit in 2023, he had a vision for the battlefield of the future, one with…
Read more L.A.’s defense industry is booming. Federal funding crunch could change thatSouthern California Edison sued Los Angeles County, water agencies and two companies including SoCalGas Friday, saying their mistakes contributed to the deadly and destructive toll of last year’s…
Read more Edison sues L.A. County and other agencies, saying they share blame for Eaton fire deaths, destructionIn his final State of the State speech, Gov. Gavin Newsom took aim at a group that some say contribute to California’s housing affordability crisis: corporate landlords. Newsom…
Read more Echoing Trump, Newsom vows crackdown on corporate homebuying in CaliforniaFor years, the water table has been dropping beneath thousands of acres of desert farmland in western Arizona, where a Saudi-owned dairy company has been allowed to pump…
Read more Arizona draws a line on groundwater use after letting Saudi-owned company pump freely for yearsIn what might be the most decisive critique yet of President Trump’s remake of the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera’s board approved a resolution on Friday to…
Read more Washington National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center in wake of Trump upsetThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will be shutting down its operations with a final edition slated for May 3, the newspaper’s owner, Block Communications, announced Wednesday.”We deeply regret the impact…
Read more Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, one of the nation’s oldest newspapers, shutteringGrok, the chatbot of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, published sexualized images of children as its guardrails seem to have failed when it was prompted with vile…
Read more Elon Musk company bot apologizes for sharing sexualized images of childrenSCOTIA — The last time Mary Bullwinkel and her beloved little town were in the national media spotlight was not a happy period. Bullwinkel was the spokesperson for the logging…
Read more From timber wars to cannabis crash: Scotia’s battle to survive as California’s last company town
