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California retained its position as the main US FinTech hub as companies based in the state secured 30% of all deals

As Californians prepare to celebrate Labor Day and the contributions of American workers, labor unions are raising alarms about what they see as a growing threat to the future of human work: artificial intelligence.

Tau Robotics is charging $30 an hour for the service and these robots can vacuum floors, wipe down kitchen counters and even take out the trash. (Scripps News)

Individuals who received notice of the 2025 California Casualty data breach may be eligible to claim up to $4,000 from a class action settlement.

On August 13, the California DFPI announced a consent order requiring a Utah-based mortgage company to pay $825,000 for allegedly failing to adequately protect the personal information of more than 284,000 individuals, including over 34,000 California residents. According to the consent order, a threat actor breached the company’s network in March 2023, installed malware, stole employee credentials, and used…

California will be helping teens mold their futures as early as possible, by requiring every high schooler to pass a financial literacy course.

California is implementing a sweeping new statutory framework that will require venture capital firms and certain other private investment vehicles with a California nexus to collect and report, on an anonymized basis, certain aggregated demographic information of their portfolio companies’ founding teams on an annual basis.

Funding rose 12% from $24.5bn in H1 2025 but was broadly flat against the $27.6bn recorded in H2 2025, a marginal dip of less than 1%.

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Weeks after the state’s AI Transparency Law took effect, researchers looked into which companies generating images and audio met the mark. Aug 17, 2026 Updated 3:37 pm PT Technology leaders attend a generative artificial intelligence meeting in San Francisco on June 29, 2023. Artificial intelligence detection tools are increasingly used to identify generative content online. (Carlos…