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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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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Former U.S. Deputy CTO Alexander Macgillivray Joins EFF Board in San Francisco as Group Challenges SB 976 in Meta v. Bonta
AI Bill of Rights co-author and former Google and Twitter legal executive Alexander Macgillivray joins the Electronic Frontier…
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Menlo Park Matchmaker Linx Dating Draws Surge of High-Net-Worth AI Executives and Researchers
Menlo Park-based boutique firm Linx Dating is seeing record demand for memberships priced from $75,000 to $500,000 among wealthy…
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OpenAI Opens Agents API Public Beta With Long-Horizon Context Management and Multi-Agent Tool Orchestration
Managed runtime infrastructure equips enterprise developers with persistent state checkpoints, automated context compaction, and…
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OpenAI Releases ChatGPT Images 2.5 Along With GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and Sunburst API Models
Next-generation multimodal synthesis engine cuts rendering latency by 50 percent while introducing Sketch reference controls, reusable…
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OpenAI Launches AI-Powered Advertising Tools Including Sponsored Agents and Shopify Integrations
New conversational marketing suite introduces Sponsored Agents in ChatGPT alongside Ads Manager automation and direct HubSpot…
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Cognition Deploys GPT-6 Astra Across Devin Platform to Automate Code Verification and Simulator Testing
Autonomous software engineer runs live iOS game simulators and resolves visual customer bug reports with verifiable screenshots.
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San Francisco Startup Higgsfield AI Accelerates Video Ad Workflows Using GPT-6 Astra
Generative video platform ships multi-step exploration features in a single day, enabling small businesses to produce 100 targeted ad…
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Clivet Unveils Magnetic-Bearing Compressor and Liquid Cooling Architecture at OCP Global Summit
Midea Building Technologies earns GW-Scale Open AIDC award in San Jose with dual-shaft thermal engineering that cuts data center…
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Joby Aviation Debuts Mobile Flight Control Simulator Ahead of Regional Commercial Air Taxi Deployment
Interactive hardware rig showcases acoustic dampening engineering, autonomous flight telemetry, and unified pilot controls to Bay Area…
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Google DeepMind Launches Real-Time On-Device Sign Language Translation on Pixel 11 and Gboard
Low-latency spatial vision model translates American Sign Language into spoken English and text without transmitting video feeds to…
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Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit and Global Law Enforcement Dismantle Vast Phishing Kit Syndicate
Coordinated international operation seizes command servers and unmasks commercial toolkits used to target tens of thousands of…
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OpenAI Partners with Ironclad to Deploy Specialized Legal Reasoning Models for Enterprise Contracts
Strategic collaboration combines frontier reasoning models with structured contract repositories to automate complex commercial…
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F45 Training plans an August opening in Dublin
F45 Training Dublin is set to open this month with 45-minute group sessions mixing cardio, strength and functional work.
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A Dublin vet hospital takes walk-ins until 10 p.m.
Vets for Pets Veterinary Hospital & Urgent Care at 7667 Amador Valley Blvd. takes walk-ins and same-day appointments 14 hours a day,…
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