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When Zeus, a medical student living in a hilltop city in central Nigeria, returns to his studio apartment from a long day at the hospital, he turns on his ring light, straps his iPhone to his forehead, and starts recording himself. He raises his hands in front of him like a sleepwalker and puts a sheet on his bed. He moves slowly and carefully to make sure his hands stay within the camera frame. Keep Reading This Article at MIT Technology Review

California State Chief Information Officer Liana Bailey-Crimmins announced on Friday she will retire after a 38-year career in public service, stepping down from her role leading the California Department of Technology. Appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2022, Bailey-Crimmins led statewide efforts to modernize infrastructure and expand digital services. Her departure marks a transition point for one of the largest state IT organizations in the country. The state has not announced a replacement. Keep Reading This Article at StateScoop

Scrutiny in Sacramento over California’s stalled Next Generation 9-1-1 system continued Tuesday, with lawmakers from the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management grilling the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and the vendors chosen to build the new emergency call network about the project’s future and past failures. Keep Reading This Article at MSN.com

UC Davis Health is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance patient care and reduce the workload of experienced physicians. And now it’s taking a step further by preparing the next generation of health care providers to harness the advanced technology in a way that only an academic medical center can. The Department of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis Medical Center is implementing a pilot program to teach its residents to use note-taking technology that faculty physicians have already implemented in their clinics. The pilot program will provide residents with training to apply generative AI tools during patient encounters, review those notes, and understand the opportunities and inherent risks of using the technology. Keep Reading This Article at UC Davis Health

If you’re worried about data centers and AI inflating your electricity bill, you’re not alone. A California watchdog released a report Tuesday urging policymakers to act fast on the state’s fast-growing data-center industry – before soaring electricity demand from artificial intelligence lands on the bills of ordinary households. “The costs that data centers impose on the electrical grid should be paid by the centers themselves, not by average California families already struggling with high utility bills,” said Pedro Nava, chair of the Little Hoover commission, the independent bipartisan body that produced the report. Keep Reading This Article at APNews.com

California’s job market appears steady overall, but clear differences have emerged between sectors. Education and health services have driven employment gains, while tech-related industries have lagged. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, education and health services added about 49,000 jobs between July and December 2025. Over the same period, the information sector lost roughly 4,600 positions. Keep Reading This Article at Edhat.com

The rise of artificial intelligence and other technology has traditional high schools scrambling to keep up — with states doing an uneven job of encouraging schools to embed critical thinking skills, and offer students access to internships and college courses, according to a new report. Today’s world, the nonprofit XQ Institute argues in its new report The Future Is High School, “requires an entirely new kind of educational experience — one that traditional high schools were never designed to deliver,” the report found. Keep Reading This Article at Yahoo News

Late last month, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg invested $50 million in California State University, Sacramento to boost STEM laboratories, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, and to establish a new Artificial Intelligence center. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the multimillion-dollar donation will fund the renovation of three vacant state buildings on Capitol Mall, converting them into a new university district with affordable housing and academic centers for students and faculty at Sacramento State. Keep Reading This Article at AS.com

(FOX40.COM) — The City of Rancho Cordova is supporting local high school students in city-funded AI programs as they present AI projects built for Rancho Cordova and SMUD. Since September, 32 local students have participated in an artificial intelligence program to demonstrate how early exposure to technology can lead to real-world impact. Keep Reading This Article at Yahoo News

In the past year, state and local governments have implemented numerous AI-based processes, transforming everything from traffic management and law enforcement to procurement and permitting. “AI is affecting all of our cities,” Sunnyvale, California, Mayor Larry Klein — whose city sits in the heart of Silicon Valley — said during a press conference opening the U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 28. And, he added, “we’re all in learning mode” and “looking at it with a wary eye.” Agreeing that AI is “on the forefront of everything,” Rancho Cordova, California, Mayor Garrett Gatewood said during the press conference that the technology is “the future of governance as a whole.” Keep Reading This Article at Yahoo News

New research anticipates hijacking against AI systems in order to create defenses for a more secure future. As a self-driving car cruises down a street, it uses cameras and sensors to perceive its environment, taking in information on pedestrians, traffic lights, and street signs. Artificial intelligence (AI) then processes that visual information so the car can navigate safely. But the same systems that allow a car to read and respond to the words on a street sign might expose that car to hijacking attacks from bad actors. Text placed on signs, posters, or other objects can be read by an AI’s perception system and treated as instructions, potentially allowing attackers to influence an autonomous system’s behavior through the real world. Keep Reading This Article at UCSC News

A startup specializing in carbon-negative artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure powered by renewable energy systems has acquired the idled Buena Vista Biomass Power facility in Ione, California, and plans to convert the legacy wood-burning plant into a 41-MW “carbon-negative AI factory.” The redevelopment announced on Jan. 14, which New York-based NewYork GreenCloud (NYGC) is executing with biomass-to-pyrolysis engineering firm BucSha Energy, seeks to convert the existing 18-MW biomass facility into a 41-MW plant that will supply renewable baseload power directly to on-site AI training and inference operations. Keep Reading This Article at Power