President Trump said on Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to like referring to artificial intelligence as “super intelligence” days after Trump announced the U.S. would be using the new name in official documents and communications. Trump made the observation in a Truth Social post in which he referred to his meeting with the...

Hedge fund manager Aaron Sosnick gave a combined $4 million to two independent expenditure committees backing Nithya Raman's mayoral campaign.

For more than three days, fire crews have worked to address a lithium-ion battery fire in La Verne that has forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents and raised questions about the safety of California's rapidly expanding energy storage systems.

President Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House for a state dinner Thursday, whose guest list is full of tech billionaires and some of the world’s most powerful business leaders. Dressed in black tuxedoes, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff...

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has rebuffed a Trump administration effort to dictate how homeless service organizations in Los Angeles can seek millions of dollars in federal housing funds.

A Stanford spokesperson said its housing and dining department had used AI 'to alter the image in violation of university policy.'

Wilver Blanco, 42, was shot in 2024 after police were called to the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood for a report of man seen chasing an elderly man with a knife, possibly while under the influence of drugs.

The former deputy fire chief for the city of Beverly Hills has been arrested on suspicion of vandalism and stalking, police said.

Don Johnson works as an independent contractor delivering lost or delayed luggage to homes in order to pay his wife's medical bills.

Two people were killed after a plane crashed in Hesperia Thursday morning.

Two hurricanes in the Pacific could combine with high tides to cause flooding and erosion at Southern California beaches early next week.

The former husband of Jill Maiorca is accused of killing her in 2006 and hiding her body under the Big Bear Lake home "without the homeowner's knowledge," authorities said.

A majority of Americans are worried about AI's progress as tech industry leaders and lawmakers call for its development to slow, according to a poll released Thursday. Three quarters of respondents to CNN's new survey reported some level of “fear and concern” when it came to “growth and development of AI technology.” The remaining 25...

When the weekend actually rolls around, the highs, lows and chance of rain numbers you were seeing on your phone app may be totally different. It could easily rain when it says it wouldn't, or be way hotter than expected.

The U.S. 10-year Treasury bond yield is now hovering above the five per cent threshold for the first time in nearly two decades amid ongoing economic uncertainty.

New York sued Polymarket on Thursday, accusing the prediction market platform of running an illegal gambling operation. It marks the latest lawsuit from the Empire State, which has levied similar allegations against Kalshi, Coinbase and Gemini in recent months. “I will always stand up for New Yorkers when bad corporate actors prey on consumers and...

Flock Safety outlined a series of policy changes to its controversial database of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) as Washington mounts pressure on the company to prevent misuse of the technology. The letter from Flock's chief legal officer, Dan Haley, was sent earlier this month to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who is spearheading an investigation...

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday the U.S. and China have an obligation to manage the development of artificial intelligence as “leading nations” in the industry. “We have both the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good and ensure that the development of AI is always under human control and serves the...

The bill calls for a prison sentence of up to 20 years for those who violate the restrictions, similar to existing penalties related to unlawfully developing nuclear weapons.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday said he spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about an agent at the company breaching the commonwealth's health department website in June. Albanese told reporters in New York City, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, that the agent gained access to the Medicare Statistics Reporting...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday criticized President Trump’s decision to greet Chinese President Xi Jinping with fanfare during the leader's arrival at Joint Base Andrews.  “This is actually pretty consistent for Trump,” the senator told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “He loves dictators, and he loves the power that Xi Jinping represents, and I think this...

President Trump said Thursday that he wants to leave AI “exactly where it is” ahead of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “A big day with President Xi of China,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Super Intelligence (SI) will be a big topic of discussion, but I want to leave it exactly where it is....

"I don’t agree with Stanford making those choices about how we were represented," said Billy Ramirez.

A federal judge temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s ban of three news outlets from the White House grounds, ordering early Thursday to have their access restored.

A new executive directive announced Thursday by Mayor Karen Bass seeks to boost crisis intervention training for police officers, among other reforms.

The mayor's camp dismissed the Berkeley IGS/L.A. Times poll as an outlier, but one Bass insider said the survey 'put a pit in stomachs.'

As Californians prepare to elect a new governor in November, the top concern they want the new leader to prioritize is reducing the state's entrenched high cost of living, according to a new poll.

The Trump administration wants to make Head Start English-only, altering learning for two-thirds of California children enrolled in the federal early childhood program. Critics say the plan goes against decades of dual language research.

The contractor of the LAX Automated People Mover, LINXS, believes the train could open in early January.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI said Wednesday that it was investigating a criminal hacking group's claims that it had stolen “very sensitive data” belonging to thousands of agents and applicants and that it had compromised the bureau's jobs website. “The FBI is aware of a cyber-criminal enterprise group claiming a compromise of the FBIJobs.gov portal...