Gavin Newsom
Current Governor of California, Democrat, and frequent national political figure.
- ⚠️ AI alarm bells
- 🤖 Drifting toward guardrails
- AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom's CA Budget Lie
- Cursor Investors Set for Epic Payout from Musk's Juggernaut. They Still Have to Stomach a Ride.
- Booming AI Revenues Boost Inference Startups to Decacorn Status
- 🦾 Progressives vs. AI
- California's Billionaire Tax Heads for the Ballot. A Compromise Would Serve Everyone Well.
“Gavin Newsom... relayed insider claims that Anthropic employees believed the company could become 'the last company standing.'”
Source→“Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed multiple pieces of AI legislation into law this week, including measures on kids' safety.”
Source→“California sent Newsom "a slate of AI bills this week, including a kids' chatbot safety measure" and a "four-year ban on the sale and manufacturing of AI chatbot toys for kids under 16."”
Source→“"California's state budget ballooned from $215 billion a year in 2019 to $355 billion today. So a 65% jump in the state budget... In the out years 2028-29, the projection is $40 billion a year in budget deficits every year."”
Source→“He's carving out a unique profile on tech issues, positioning himself as a pro-innovation Democrat who supports many industry priorities even as he backs AI regulation and bashes the tech-loving Trump Administration.”
Source→“The book tells the story of the rise of the internet industry in San Francisco...It features a rich cast of characters, including well-known political leaders like Gavin Newsom and Willie Brown...Tech kingpins such as Chris Larsen and Mark Pincus.”
Source→“California Federation of Labor Unions president Lorena Gonzalez said Newsom's executive order wasn't enough, calling Khanna's 'Work for America' proposal 'way more developed and worker- and job-centered.'”
Source→“His AI 'executive order flopped among labor organizations that said studying the impact on workers is not enough.'”
Source→“California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order directing California agencies to explore sweeping labor-policy changes aimed at addressing potential mass job displacement from AI, including expanded retraining programs, subsidies for companies that retain workers, and even concepts like universal basic capital.”
Source→“Gavin, to his credit says, yes, I agree. This is very bad news for the state... What his position running for president is going to be is obviously you shouldn't do this at the state level. You should do this at the federal level. Because the problem with this tax at the state level is you can flee the state. You can't flee the country.”
Source→“There's still a chance that Governor Newsom could persuade the billionaire tax's sponsor, a powerful healthcare union, to withdraw the measure in exchange for some other mechanism for boosting healthcare funding.”
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