Tom Steyer has campaigned as a progressive Democrat who wants to make housing affordable in the state. His own wealth has been a concern for some voters.
Representative Doris Matsui is facing her toughest re-election fight in her more than two decades of representing a safely Democratic district in the Sacramento region.
San Francisco received nearly as much rain one morning as it would typically see for the month, and a slope in the Sierra Nevada remained open for skiing.
Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance.
Anthropic’s updated model, Claude Opus 4.8, is particularly adept at vibecoding, or the process of artificial intelligence writing code from prompts in conversational English.
The actor Matthew Perry was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his home in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2023. His assistant had injected him with at least three shots of ketamine that day.