Bay Area tech executives Kathy Chiao and Ken Hao donated $75M to UC Davis to fund scholarships, research and a new veterinary hospital as part of a campus expansion.

A new international advisory warns China‑nexus actors are routing attacks through compromised routers and IoT to mask espionage and pre‑position strikes.

A Financial Times report says a White House memo accuses China of "industrial-scale" theft of U.S. AI labs' IP, echoing Anthropic and OpenAI warnings and raising enforcement questions.

San José State added a mobile Doppler radar and a NASA partnership to expand wildfire sensing, field campaigns and hands‑on student training. The upgrades aim to sharpen local fire forecasts and plume monitoring.

Meta reserved up to 100 GWh from Palo Alto’s Noon Energy to back up AI data centers. The project begins with a 25 MW pilot aimed for completion in 2028.

SpaceX said Tuesday it can buy San Francisco’s Cursor for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for a partnership. The move ties Musk’s AI push to a startup that has raised billions and rapidly grown revenue.

Japanese materials firm Resonac opened the U.S.'s first advanced semiconductor packaging R&D center in Union City, joining a US‑JOINT consortium to speed AI chip development.

Meta will install software to log employees' mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI agents, prompting fresh privacy concerns and regulatory scrutiny.

Sunnyvale‑based Cerebras filed an S‑1 showing big 2025 growth, a major OpenAI compute partnership and new data‑center expansion as it aims to list as CBRS.

Meta is testing a photorealistic AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg at its Menlo Park campus that could speak for the CEO — and some employees are uneasy.

Three San Jose drivers sued the city over nearly 500 Flock plate‑reading cameras, asking judges to narrow searches and speed deletion of stored images.

Portuguese app store Aptoide sued Google in San Francisco federal court, accusing the Play Store of choking off rivals and seeking injunctions plus unspecified triple damages. The filing follows a string of antitrust rulings that have already forced changes to Android distribution.

Oracle will buy up to 2.8 GW of Bloom Energy fuel-cell power for its AI data centers; 1.2 GW is already under contract and deployment is underway.