California's new AI‑unemployment tracker finds no statewide surge, but college‑educated, highly AI‑exposed Bay Area tech workers have seen unemployment claims climb sharply.

San Francisco rolled Copilot out to 30,000 city workers, but adoption is wildly uneven: a few superusers account for much of the activity while many staff barely use it. The gap is forcing new rules and a city AI roadmap.

Bay Area-built FireSat satellites launched Tuesday, promising higher-resolution wildfire detection and faster alerts for firefighters.

Thermo Fisher says the RapidINTEL Plus cartridge is now NDIS‑approved for qualifying crime‑scene samples, letting rapid DNA profiles be searched in CODIS when labs meet FBI standards.

More than 100 authors sued Anthropic in federal court, alleging the company used pirated books to train its Claude models and seeking statutory damages and a jury trial. The filing lists roughly 500 registered works and arrives amid other high‑profile AI copyright cases.

A researcher says Anthropic's Claude helped expose an SQL injection in Front Gate Tickets that could issue unlimited VIP passes; Front Gate says it patched the bug and found no sign of fraud.

Microsoft is seeding a new "Frontier" company with $2.5 billion to help big firms deploy AI, promising customers will keep the work and IP from those projects.

UC Berkeley researchers report algae persisted inside lysosome‑like symbiosomes in coral cells, a finding that may change how scientists study bleaching and reef rescue.

Milan-based Bending Spoons priced 58M shares at $29 on Nasdaq, raising about $1.7B as the stock jumped and investors priced its plan to revive AOL, Vimeo and Eventbrite.

Meta is preparing a cloud business to sell spare AI compute and hosted models, a change that could put it head‑to‑head with AWS, Azure and Google.

UC Berkeley researchers used AI to uncover a previously unseen ECG marker in lead aVL that flags a higher sudden‑death risk and may change who gets monitored.

California will offer Anthropic's Claude AI to state and local agencies at half price, plus free training and technical support.

Visa filings show Anthropic listing base salaries above $1M for a few technical roles, highlighting how hot the AI hiring wars have become in San Francisco.