Diablo Valley Employers Should Pay Students to Check AI’s Work
As artificial intelligence changes the workplace, local businesses could help students develop a valuable new skill: verifying what AI…
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Walnut Creek’s AVELAR names Dave Brehmer director of operations
Walnut Creek-based AVELAR has appointed Dave Brehmer director of operations as the engineering and consulting firm celebrates 50 years…
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California and FTC Sue Dollar General Over Checkout Price Overcharges
California joined the Federal Trade Commission and 19 other states on Tuesday in a federal lawsuit filed in the U.S.
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Putter’s Mini Golf in Walnut Creek to Close Nov. 29 for Housing
Putter’s Mini Golf at 1275 S.
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Veteran entrepreneurs to gather in San Ramon for November contracting forum
The Elite Service-Disabled Veteran Business Network — Northern California will hold its Boots to Business 2026 forum on Nov. 6 at the…
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Walnut Creek City Council and Downtown Business Association Launch Fall Retail Promenade Initiative Along Locust Street
Extended pedestrian walkways, artisan weekend pop-ups, and seasonal acoustic music showcases aim to boost foot traffic across the…
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OpenAI Commits $1 Billion to Daybreak for Frontline Defenders Cybersecurity Initiative and MS-ISAC Pilot
San Francisco-based OpenAI launches its $1 billion Daybreak for Frontline Defenders program to equip water agencies, electric grid…
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Researchers Deploy GPT-5.6 Sol and Codex to Automate Quantum Circuit Calibration and Physics Experiments
East Bay and national quantum laboratories integrate frontier scientific reasoning models to synthesize microwave control pulses and…
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OpenAI Announces Formal Lean Verification Milestone on Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Mathematical Framework
San Francisco frontier AI researchers release machine-checked Lean 4 formalization and analytical partial differential equation bounds…
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Meta Updated Commercial Terms Authorize AI Scraping of Business and Publisher Websites
Policy taking effect October 30 grants platform broad rights to crawl linked commercial sites for model training, raising legal…
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Stack Overflow for Agents ChatGPT Plugin Triples Signups and Accelerates Developer Workflows
Built in weeks using Codex and powered by GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6 Sol, new developer integration slashes connector engineering from…
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United States Treasury Department Publishes Fiscal 2026 Budget Report as Federal Deficit Expands to $2 Trillion
Annual fiscal audit documents twelve percent deficit surge driven by escalating debt service interest rates, social programs, and…
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Google DeepMind and Fenris Creations Partner to Train Multi-Agent Economic Intelligence in Virtual Worlds
Frontier research initiative deploys autonomous AI agents into EVE Online complex player-driven market to model real-world trade and…
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Financial Authorities Sanction Cryptocurrency Processor Cryptomus Over Illicit Cybercrime Clearinghouse Role
Sanctions freeze assets and ban transactions with platform identified by blockchain researchers as central clearing hub for ransomware…
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OpenAI Releases Cryptographic Text Watermarking Architecture to Comply with European Union AI Act
Mathematical verification framework embeds tamper-resistant statistical signatures in generated prose, enabling verifiable origin…
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Foundational AI Developers Acquire Proprietary Datasets from Bankrupt Startups in Scramble for Specialized Domain Knowledge
Silicon Valley research labs purchase clinical records, engineering CAD archives, and bespoke transactional logs to train…
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Concord Economic Development Team Reviews Retail Strategy for Treat Boulevard Commercial Corridor
City officials and commercial brokers evaluate adaptive reuse opportunities following closure of prominent dining anchor near Clayton…
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Pleasant Hill chamber members get free entry to a January employment-law day
A full day of California employment-law training comes to National University on Jan. 27, and Pleasant Hill Chamber of Commerce…
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Sky Zone trampoline park is coming to the old Stein Mart at the Orchards
The vacant Stein Mart space at the Orchards is set to become a 27,451-square-foot Sky Zone, with dodgeball courts, a zip line and a…
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Pleasant Hill chamber brings back its Business Person of the Year award
The Pleasant Hill Chamber of Commerce is restoring its Business Person of the Year award at a board dinner Thursday, Aug. 20, at Back…
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Ember Rest rents a table and any board game for $7 a day in Martinez
Ember Rest, the tabletop shop on Main Street in downtown Martinez, charges $7 a person to play any game in its library for as long as…
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