Apple sued OpenAI, accusing the ChatGPT maker of soliciting and using confidential Apple hardware materials. The complaint names two former Apple employees and asks a San Francisco federal court to block use of those materials.

Nobel-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is leaving UC Berkeley to lead AIMATRY at Tsinghua University, citing U.S. funding concerns and a chance to scale AI-driven materials discovery.

Google will flag ads created with generative AI and provide attestation tools for advertisers. Bay Area teams should audit creative and add provenance metadata now.

San Francisco tech employers are using AI chatbots to screen white‑collar candidates — a Greenhouse survey finds the practice is widespread but opaque. Employers say bots widen the funnel; candidates demand disclosure.

Meta's Muse Image rollout lets public Instagram photos be used to generate AI images unless you opt out. Here’s the quick path to flip the setting.

Bank of America quietly provided OpenAI a $520M credit line as the company prepares for a potential IPO, a move that underscores Wall Street’s rush for AI listings.

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.