The company behind ChatGPT is converting to a for-profit company and settling an investigation by California’s attorney general, but the company could still exploit its charitable roots.

The unions and Kaiser Permanente are close on a four-year total – 21.5% offered by Kaiser compared to 25% sought over four years by the unions. But the unions want nearly half of those increases – 12% – to occur in the first year.

Thousands of Californians could return to homelessness as the feds reportedly plan to disinvest from permanent housing.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is raising money from labor unions and Democrats all over the country for his redistricting ballot measure. Republicans are pouring in money to fight it.

Most plans to regulate data centers died in the state’s Legislature this year, despite a nationwide backlash. Two surviving bills aim to promote disclosure of energy and water use.

The new law prevents federal agents working in California from concealing their identities with masks. The Trump administration said it will ignore the law, which is expected to face a legal challenge.

California officials reported that at least 15 major fires are burning over 350,000 acres on national forest and Bureau of Land Management lands in the state.

A new bill under consideration in the California Legislature would give local officials more tools to identify and combat sexual abuse and educate students to better identify the most common signs of grooming behavior.

Newsom’s office expects to deploy the team within the next month to San Jose and California’s other nine largest cities, to tackle encampments on state property along highway medians and under overpasses.

The proposed redistricting would make minor changes in a half dozen Bay Area congressional districts, and expand the 9th Congressional District westward toward the East Bay to bolster potential support for incumbent Democrat Rep. Josh Harder.

The independent body that redraws the state’s political maps isn’t perfect, but many Republicans prefer that to the gerrymander that Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to offset one proposed in Texas. 

Most of California’s coastline was expected to experience tsunami waves of less than two feet.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it is rolling back decades-old emissions standards for cars and trucks and proposing new rules that reverse the “endangerment finding.”

Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, gave out $1 million checks to gin up support for Donald Trump. California lawmakers want to ban big cash payments to registered voters.

California’s main source of homelessness funding would drop from $1 billion last year to $0 this year in the proposed state budget.

On the eve of anti-Trump demonstrations in San Jose – one of 58 locations in the Bay Area among more than 2,000 “No Kings” events nationwide and Western Europe – Mayor Matt Mahan said he supported the protest, but also pleaded for non-violence.