#California

The office building at 1515 Third Street in San Francisco's Mission Bay, which housed OpenAI's headquarters when it was photographed in June 2025.

Artificial intelligence

Four nonprofits ask a San Francisco judge to freeze frontier AI development at OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta and SpaceX

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, named as the defendant in all three lawsuits, in his official portrait released in 2023.

Google, Meta and TikTok sue California to block its ban on addictive feeds for users under 16

San Quentin State Prison, in Marin County, California, photographed in 2017.

Newsom commutes all 548 death sentences in California, the largest mass clemency in US history

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the department's headquarters in Washington, D.C., photographed in March 2026.

Midterm elections

Justice Department orders California election officials before a grand jury on November 4, the day after the midterms

California Governor Gavin Newsom in his official portrait, released in March 2026.

Anthropic asks California to let courts suspend risky AI models, going further than OpenAI

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the agency's headquarters in Washington, in March 2026.

Midterm elections

Justice Department asks a judge to set aside 20,000 California ballots, and Los Angeles County says the list is unreliable

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the headquarters of the U.S. Justice Department, in Washington, D.C., in 2026.

Midterm elections

The Justice Department sues California to keep 20,000 mail ballots uncounted, 19 days before the midterms

Governor Gavin Newsom at a 2025 press conference on California's artificial intelligence workforce agreements with technology companies.

Artificial intelligence

California bans the "robo boss": an algorithm alone may no longer fire a worker