Early this summer, California seemed poised to play a leading role in shaping a new frontier of tech regulation as lawmakers considered bills to force big digital platforms to pay local news.

Wicks drafted a bill that would have charged companies like Google and Meta for using and selling advertising alongside news ...

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The woman was airlifted to the UCSD Medical Burn Center and the delivery driver was also taken to the hospital ...

Google also is testing more AI-powered tools in another one of its popular navigation apps: Waze. Users will be able to tap a ...

Wicks drafted a bill that would have charged companies like Google and Meta for using and selling advertising alongside news produced in California, which has 580 local news outlets, the most of ...

Wicks drafted a bill that would have charged companies like Google and Meta for using and selling advertising alongside news produced in California, which has 580 local news outlets, the most of ...

(Bloomberg) -- Google was negotiating to spend $110 ... hundreds of millions of dollars every year to support the news industry in California. After private negotiations that excluded some of ...

Google was negotiating to spend $110 million to support California’s struggling journalism industry, but the search giant had a demand: taxpayers would need to contribute tens of millions of ...