The Commerce Department told U.S. chip‑tool makers to pause some shipments to Hua Hong, a move that could slow the company’s push toward 7nm chips and hit vendor sales.

A decade-old suit accuses San Jose-based Cisco of helping build China’s "Golden Shield" surveillance network. The Supreme Court’s decision could reshape liability for tech firms.

Jumio has named Mark Lorion as CEO as the Sunnyvale firm doubles down on defenses against AI-enabled deepfakes and injection attacks. The hire pairs SaaS go-to-market experience with identity-scale tooling.

San Jose Water will deploy a $3 million mobile purification unit to test direct potable reuse, with a pilot expected within about two years.

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.

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.

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.

Khan Academy, TED and ETS are teaming up on a competency-based B.S. in applied AI with big-tech partners and a targeted price near $10K; applications are expected in 12–18 months.