The city plan meets all the required climate change goals, but it relies on assumptions of significant resource acquisition, capital upgrades, infrastructure improvements and technology advancements that may not pan out.
Over the one-year period that ended in June 2023, Silicon Valley added about 2,700 jobs, the report determined. That’s a sharp slowdown from the 88,000 jobs the region added during the one-year period that ended in June 2022.
The most recent layoffs disclosed by the tech titan will affect Cisco workers in San Jose, Milpitas and San Francisco, according to official notices the company sent to the state Employment Development Department.
When it comes to ensuring the multibillion-dollar AI industry succeeds in their respective cities, San Francisco and San Jose are taking starkly different approaches to attracting companies.
AI has California voters worried this election cycle. Just over 5 in 10 said they are concerned about their jobs being replaced by AI, according to a December survey by Politico and Morning Consult.
Despite the brutal impact of the ongoing regional layoffs, the current staffing reductions are nowhere close to the cataclysm that demolished the region’s tech industry during the dot-com meltdown two decades ago.
Categories where cuts might be made include business and labor, criminal justice, education, health and human services, housing and homelessness, resources and environment and transportation.
In July 2023, Cisco employed 84,900 workers worldwide, according to an annual report the tech company filed with the SEC. It’s not yet known to what extent the worldwide job cuts would affect Cisco workers in the Bay Area.
“If we don’t fix this, none of our plans, regardless of how good they are, will come to pass because consumers won’t accept EVs without a reliable EV infrastructure,” said Frank Menchaca, president of sustainable mobility solutions at the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Salesforce, Snap, Maxar Space and Activision Blizzard are among the high-profile companies that have disclosed plans for job cuts affecting their employees in the Bay Area, according to official filings with the state Employment Development Department.
The union, which represents nearly 96,000 California state workers, first reported a “network disruption” on Jan. 20, two days after the breach occurred. An update Monday confirmed the breach but offered few details about what data was compromised and who was affected.
The device allows law enforcement agencies to log the phone’s unique identifying information and pinpoint the phone’s location. With additional software, they’ll be able to collect the content of communications.
The PayPal announcement coincided with Block Founder and CEO Jack Dorsey following through on his commitment to widespread job cuts at the finance and payments-focused tech firm, reportedly letting go of close to 1,000 people.
Officials hope gaining access to the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System will empower tribal law enforcement to be more proactive in identifying people with domestic violence or kidnapping arrests made outside of tribal courts — and turn the tide on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Person epidemic.
California state Sen. Aisha Wahab has proposed legislation that would combine all of the transit agencies that oversee public transit in the nine-county Bay Area into one in hopes of more seamless service. Would it work?
Last year the FCC sought to crack down on what it called illegal telemarketing calls coming from overseas, pressuring Internet telecommunications companies to stop the traffic or face fines and penalties.
The impact might have been greater if economic development officials had been more successful in their dream of making the Sacramento region a tech jobs hub, one analyst said.
Besides Google, other tech companies also are planning Bay Area layoffs: Block and Unity Technology have decided to slash scores of jobs in San Francisco.
The call-routing problems, which have plagued the 988 system since it began operating in July 2022, would be fixed if a bill by U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, which would use a new technology called geo-routing, is passed by Congress and signed into law.
Dodd’s bill comes as California lawmakers returned to work in Sacramento for the start of an election-year session dominated not only by AI uses and concerns but also by the state’s significant well of budgetary red ink, an estimated $68 billion.
Renesas Electronics, Western Digital, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Talis Biomedical disclosed decisions to conduct employment reductions affecting their workers in the Bay Area.
Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan said she sees part of her role as the new chair of the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee as assessing existing laws — such as those banning child pornography, protecting intellectual property and prohibiting discrimination — and ensuring that they will apply to artificial intelligence.
“I realized my students have to have something to talk about in interviews with companies, and be able to talk about AI,” said San Jose State professor Ahmed Banafa.
The university will hire seven faculty members in the Department of Computer Science, focusing on AI and quantum computing as part of the new initiative.
Assembly Bill 205 has rural Shasta County in a dust-up with the state, which was cemented last month with a lawsuit filed by county officials that challenges the California Energy Commission’s jurisdiction over the Fountain Wind Project, a nearly $500 million proposal that calls for 48 wind turbines to be built.
California’s Privacy Protection Agency has shared draft rules on how companies using automated decision-making tools — including those powered by artificial intelligence — can use consumers’ information.
The University of California already uses the program on some campuses but a more comprehensive acquisition of licenses is expected to drive value and integration.
The plans reflect a change in location by the company in question, Sparkz, and would require a transfer for two multimillion-dollar grants the company received from the California Energy Commission.
