Gavin Newsom Faces Six Afl-Cio Leaders Demanding AI Worker Protections

Six union bigwigs want concrete AI guardrails - and sooner than Newsom’s likely 2028 campaign calendar.

Snowflake and OpenAI Lock $200M to Industrialize Enterprise AI

They dropped $200M to run OpenAI models inside Snowflake’s Data Cloud - with enterprise controls and less data schlepping.

French raid sparks global probes - regulators call Grok-created sexualised deepfakes a 'tipping point'.

Unprecedented money is targeting ballot fights, state lawmakers, and Gov. Newsom’s succession - politics, Silicon Valley style.

Research hit 4 million papers in 2024, and an open-source model just answered science Qs more accurately than people.

Claude will never show sponsored links in chats - Anthropic chose trust over short-term ad dollars.

Capex could double, Gemini hit 750M MAUs, cloud backlog swells to $240B - big bet, bigger bill.

Gemini jumped from 650M to 750M MAUs after Gemini 3 - closing the gap on ChatGPT's ~810M.

Google parent is dialing up 2026 spend well above expectations, all-in on AI, chips and data centers.

$20B from Nvidia to OpenAI, part of a potential $100B+ round - chips turning into ownership.

$175-185B in 2026 capex - nearly double 2025 - while power, land, and supply chain are already biting.

Tens of billions on the table, and Amazon wants priority dibs on OpenAI's tech.