Deloitte Consulting, INRIX Inc. and Accenture will be paid $1 each to develop and test potential AI tools in a secure environment during a six-month pilot program with the California Department of Transportation.
About 1,400 students went to the Marriott Hotel in downtown Oakland, some from considerable distances, to take the SAT exam, which is now entirely online. Officials had to cancel the test due to Internet connectivity problems.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is among the agencies, companies and nonprofits that are engaging in the booming “space race” to fight the flames.
The new system, developed by local software company Genasys, will use geographical boundaries — including lakes, freeways, mountains and more — to outline areas that need to evacuate during a wildfire or other emergency situation.
The grand jury also calls for supervisors to hire three new county employees to bolster cybersecurity. One would work within the county’s IT department and assist other agencies with cybersecurity training, implementation and monitoring of cybersecurity systems.
Responder is being marketed as the first drone built specifically to respond to 911 calls by quickly arriving at scenes, beaming a live video feed and, if necessary, dropping off medical supplies.
Hackers locked up the department’s computer system, ultimately receiving a $1.1 million ransom paid in cryptocurrency in return for releasing the data. And what happened to the Sheriff’s Department is not unusual.
The latest layoffs from companies such as Tesla, Apple and Google, along with other disclosures, have helped to shove the total number of officially disclosed layoffs past the grim milestone of 40,000 for the first time in the Bay Area.
“We will work with our levee districts to make sure that the proposed technology and the proposed information they would get is actually useful,” said Sami Nall, the Yuba Water Agency’s flood risk reduction manager.
Kaiser told SFGATE that “certain online technologies, previously installed on its websites and mobile applications,” may have transmitted personal information to third-party vendors Google, Microsoft Bing, and X (Twitter).
The electric vehicle maker will chop 2,753 jobs in the Bay Area, according to official WARN notices the company sent to the state Employment Development Department.
The report shows just how much the possibilities of AI, and very real worries, have come to the fore since OpenAI launched its ChatGPT chatbot that sent the artificial intelligence industry into overdrive.
This time around, the vast majority of the layoffs are not in the tech industry, a sector that has been trimming jobs at an elevated pace for more than two years.
The unauthorized individuals had access to users’ personal information, including their name, address, date of birth, part or all of their Social Security number, email address, phone number, EBT card number and other information about their program eligibility and benefits.
TechNet, a trade group that lobbies on behalf of tech companies like Meta and Google with huge investments in AI, says the kinds of disclosures that bill calls for would kneecap the U.S. edge in AI technology.
“The hope is that by it being user-friendly on the back end, we can enhance the experience on the front end as well,” said city public affairs manager Jennifer Carey.
“Whether we like it or not, AI is going to be a dominant technology,” said Khaled Tawfik, San Jose’s chief information officer. “We want to be the leader in discovering the risk and finding ways to mitigate it.”
The data-collection process has helped save coastal communities millions of dollars each year because beaches stay open more often, even after lifeguards get alerts of sharks in the water.
“Everyone is trying to figure out how these tools will impact both short-term and long-term, what we do in universities,” said Tom Andriola, vice chancellor for data and information technology at UCI. “We are looking at it as, ‘How are these tools going to impact and influence the way teaching and learning happens in the future?’”
The app allows California residents and nonresidents to electronically display fishing licenses and sportfishing validations instead of a physical license. Users can also download and read the state wildlife agency’s published regulation booklets and access its websites.
In a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom last week, 40 House members and the state’s two senators emphasized the need for greater state leadership and continued investment, which they said will bring high-paying jobs and large economic growth to California.
With the primaries in the rearview mirror and the November general election just eight months away, state legislators have introduced bills focusing on the technology’s potential to confuse and deceive voters and otherwise disrupt elections.
If passed, the proposal, which has support from San Francisco officials, would mark the first big update to the state’s regulatory reporting requirements regarding autonomous vehicles since 2018.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed state budget lacks funding for the Telework Compliance Office. The office’s future, and that of the telework data dashboard — a comprehensive picture of remote work at the state — are uncertain.
“We are taking steps to reduce costs across our organization, which has resulted in the elimination of 50 information technology positions in the East Bay,” a Kaiser spokesperson said via email.
