The university’s journalism school will not host a proposed $125 million fund for California newsrooms, POLITICO has learned.

Los Angeles officials on Tuesday abruptly stopped a longstanding policy allowing employees to communicate using Google Chat messages that were automatically deleted after 24 hours.

Google has failed to persuade a judge in California to throw out a lawsuit accusing the technology giant of monopolizing the online search market.

The agreement displaced a bill that would have required Google and Meta to pay into a fund for journalism that is shared on their platforms.

Striking images from devastating wildfires in southern California are all over social media. While many are real, some are fake.

Google, the Mountain View-based search and digital advertising giant, is facing increasing scrutiny as the government has recommended it be broken up and its lucrative search index opened to rivals.

California’s privacy regulators are advancing new rules aimed at governing the use of automated decision-making technology (ADMT). These regulations, proposed by the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), focus on increasing transparency and consumer control over the use of personal data in automated processes.

A federal judge this week rejected Google's motion to throw out a class-action lawsuit alleging that it invaded the privacy of users who opted out of functionality that records a users' web and app activities. A jury trial is scheduled for August 2025 in US District Court in San Francisco.

Photos from the path of destruction highlight the mounting loss and how some California communities are forever changed.

But apparently, Google's AI summary doesn't think that. "This morning, I asked Google AI where the best air quality in Southern California is," Kimmel revealed. "It said Altadena, which is not the right answer.