The state has inked a half-price deal with Anthropic for the AI company's productivity assistant, Claude. The tool will be the first of its kind on the recently launched Statewide IT Shared Services (SITeS) portal.

With budget pressures mounting, the city wants 2,500 employees trained in AI by 2027 as leaders say the technology can speed up public services while preserving jobs.

People are talking about what's going on in state and local government IT. Here's a rundown of the latest we're hearing across our network and some of the corners that might be worth looking around.

The rail authority says it is not proposing to build or operate data centers, but officials acknowledged the idea could become a flashpoint in Central Valley communities.

July 1 is the final deadline for a return to in-person state work. The governor doesn’t show any signs of granting an 11th-hour reprieve. Union leaders, meanwhile, are making noise about a possible exodus from some of the most secure jobs in the country.

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A new report explores how artificial intelligence can help child welfare workers across the country to better support their constituents — not by replacing human judgment, but by freeing up people to spend more time on delivering needed services and less time on repetitive processes.