Environmental and business groups alike had lobbied against the bill, which establishes a 300-foot minimum distance between new warehouses and inhabited buildings.

Move over, restaurant menus. California Gov. Gavin Newsom just used a QR code as an official memo to announce he signed a bill into law.

Gavin Newsom has vetoed a controversial artificial-intelligence safety bill that pitted some of the biggest tech companies against prominent scientists who developed the technology.The Democrat decided to reject the measure because it applies only to the biggest and most expensive AI models and doesn’t take into account whether they are deployed in high-risk situations,

The signing comes a month after lawmakers let a pair of bills die that would have created a state reparations agency and a fund for it to use.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bipartisan bill banning octopus farming in the state. California is now the second state to do so.

By Aldgra Fredly Contributing Writer California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed a bill requiring the state to apologize for its historical role in slavery and racial discrimination against Black residents.