Tri‑Valley high schoolers are building drones, AI and satellite maps that have already drawn police, funder and NASA attention. Their work shows how local STEM investment can move prototypes into pilots.

The Ninth Circuit largely upheld a contempt finding against Apple but rejected an absolute ban on off‑App Store commissions, sending the fee dispute back to the district court.

Intel signed a nonbinding term sheet to acquire Palo Alto’s SambaNova, a move that could accelerate Intel’s AI push and reshape the Bay Area chip scene. The agreement is preliminary and will face due diligence and regulatory review.

Brussels has opened an antitrust probe into Google’s use of publishers’ articles and YouTube uploads for AI, investigating compensation and access rules for creators.

A Ninth Circuit panel in San Francisco upheld a TRO blocking OpenAI and Jony Ive from using 'io' to market hardware similar to startup iyO's voice‑only computer.

A Stanford lab just cracked the problem that's been keeping quantum computers locked in energy-guzzling deep freezers. The room-temperature device could slash the enormous cooling costs that have made quantum computing impractical for all but the biggest tech players.

Kaiser agreed to a preliminary $46 million settlement after tracking pixels on its sites and apps may have shared member data with tech vendors. The deal affects millions and faces a court fairness hearing.

A small asteroid with a non-zero percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032 has scientists from the Bay Area to Houston and New York scrambling to refine its orbit. As teams weigh everything from reconnaissance missions to nuclear disruption, the question is whether the odds will shrink before time runs out.

MIT’s new Iceberg Index finds AI can already perform work equal to about 11.7% of U.S. wage value — roughly $1.2 trillion — and the exposure is spread beyond tech hubs.

VA Palo Alto completed the Veterans Health Administration’s first catheter‑based tricuspid valve replacement using the FDA‑cleared EVOQUE device. The patient is recovering and the move could broaden options for high‑risk Veterans.

That massive white blimp drifting past Alcatraz yesterday wasn't advertising anything—it's Google co-founder Sergey Brin's latest attempt to revolutionize disaster relief with a 400-foot electric airship. Hoodline staff caught the behemoth tracing a deliberate path from the Golden Gate to the Bay Bridge, part of expanded test flights that have Silicon Valley asking whether this floating giant might actually deliver on its humanitarian promises.

Stanford Medicine researchers linked lupus to the Epstein-Barr virus, indicating a potential breakthrough in understanding and treating the autoimmune disease.

A Fort Worth judge kept Elon Musk’s antitrust case alive against Apple and OpenAI, allowing discovery to proceed while the court weighs the merits.