8+ hour, 47+ min ago  (227+ words) Shares of Allbirds " the 2010s pioneer of trendy sneakers and eco-conscious Millennial retail marketing " took flight in an almost comical fashion Wednesday morning after the company announced an extremely 2026 pivot: abandoning its environmental agenda and getting into the AI business. Allbirds…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (496+ words) Cal State Monterey Bay has introduced an artificial intelligence minor to its catalog for the 2026-27 school year. The School of Computing and Design at the College of Science is offering the four-course sequence program. One of the classes will allow…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (892+ words) Teddy bears and stuffed plushies have long been a mainstay in toy collections. But today, they do not talk back in a child's imagination; some talk through built-in artificial intelligence chatbots. Sometimes, that is a problem, though: A scarf-wearing teddy…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (175+ words) KSBW Reservoir Farms held its grand opening today in Salinas, introducing the first on-farm robotics hub for start-ups focused on agriculture, to rapidly scale ag technology for specialty crop production. A representative from the hub said, "I know firsthand it's…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (475+ words) Anthropic is suing the Trump administration for what it calls an "unlawful campaign of retaliation" against the artificial intelligence company over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology. Anthropic asked federal courts on Monday to reverse the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (500+ words) President Donald Trump terminated a government-tech contract with AI company Anthropic on Friday, following a public dispute with the Pentagon over ethical and national security concerns. On Friday, President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to cease all use of tech…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (304+ words) Caltrans has installed adaptive AI technology at nine intersections along Highway 68 to reduce congestion, with full optimization expected by May. Caltrans has implemented adaptive artificial intelligence technology to control traffic lights at nine intersections along Highway 68, aiming to reduce congestion…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (760+ words) Anthropic, a company founded by Open AI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition. Instead of self-imposed guardrails constraining its development of AI models, Anthropic is adopting a nonbinding safety…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (362+ words) Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sued Musk's x AI on Wednesday, alleging that the company's AI chatbot Grok generated sexually explicit deepfake images of her without her consent. "x AI's product Grok, a generative…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (216+ words) ksbw. com Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation (PG&E), Salesforce, Lockheed Martin and Wells Fargo just launched a new venture in efforts to prevent wildfires across California. EMBERPOINT is a venture that utilizes artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and integrated command-and-control technologies…...