Officers grabbing coffee in downtown Salinas heard faint calls and helped free a man stuck inside a wall between Brewjee Coffee and Maya Cinemas; he was booked on suspicion of burglary.

San Quentin has been converted into a rehabilitation campus and CDCR moved more than 500 condemned inmates to prisons across California.

Matthew Accarrino is consulting on Vetra and a casual café at The Elene in Napa, pairing Cal‑Italian cooking with a cycling program tied to the Napa Valley Vine Trail.

Parag Agrawal’s Parallel launched Index, a dashboard that tracks AI agent use of web content and routes payments to publishers and creators.

An Office Depot site on El Monte Avenue has been sold and is slated to become a 120‑unit affordable housing project led by CRDC and The Danco Group.

Google's I/O keynote shifted Gemini into an "agentic" era, debuting Gemini Spark — a 24/7 AI agent — alongside faster models and a new AI video tool. Rollouts start with paid tiers and testers.

Plainclothes officers arrested three suspected pickpocketers in Chinatown after tracking a vehicle into the neighborhood. Police say stolen items and more than $14,000 in cash were recovered.

Palo Alto’s City Council on May 18 advanced a tentative map allowing a developer to split an estate lot into nine parcels and 16 homes despite neighbors’ fire‑safety warnings. The move was fueled by recent state housing laws that narrow local discretion.

New county-level data unveiled in Sacramento shows nearly 16 million Californians can't afford basic costs; food banks are urging lawmakers for $110M to shore up supplies.

A former Santa Clara County guard was sentenced to 45 days after a 2022 Elmwood inmate ambush tied to his actions.

OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic’s pretraining team, returning to frontier LLM research and bolstering the San Francisco lab’s technical bench.

Analog Devices is reportedly close to buying Empower Semiconductor for about $1.5 billion to add power-delivery tech for AI data centers.

Blackstone and Google announced a $5 billion joint venture to sell Google TPUs as compute-as-a-service, targeting about 500MW of capacity by 2027. Benjamin Treynor Sloss will lead the new company and outlets say the buildout could scale much larger.