Dublin offers free licensing and financing clinics for new ventures
Municipal economic development team partners with East Bay mentors to offer free licensing, commercial financing, and marketing…
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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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Ninth and Fifth Circuits Reject Expansive DMCA Section 1202 Claims Against AI Code Models and Web Hyperlinks
The San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit rules DMCA metadata provisions do not bar AI models from generating new code in the GitHub suit…
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Google DeepMind AlphaEvolve Gemini Coding Agent Cuts DNA Sequencing Errors by 30 Percent and Quantum Circuit Noise by 10x
AlphaEvolve boosts power-grid optimization feasibility from 14% to 88%, earns praise from mathematician Terence Tao, and drives…
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Alicia Owens Appointed First Female President of Silicon Valley Black Chamber of Commerce in San Jose
Veteran operations leader takes the helm in Santa Clara County with plans for small-business AI training, youth STEM workshops, and…
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Hackers Exploit Critical SiteGuard WAF Flaw CVE-2026-106931 to Execute Commands With Root Privileges
JPCERT/CC and cybersecurity researchers warn of active in-the-wild exploitation targeting SiteGuard Server Edition web application…
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FDA Clears Masimo smartSET AI Pulse Oximetry Platform on Radius VSM With 97 Percent AFib Sensitivity
The FDA grants 510(k) clearance for Masimo's AI-enabled atrial fibrillation detection on the wearable Radius VSM monitor, pairing 97%…
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METR Study Finds Open-Source Maintainers Reject 24 Percent More SWE-Bench Patches Than Automated Graders
Blind code reviews of 296 AI-generated pull requests by open-source maintainers reveal a 24 percentage point merge gap below SWE-bench…
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OpenAI Releases Frontier Model GPT-6 Astra as Playco Cuts Game Prototyping Fixes by 50 Percent
OpenAI debuts GPT-6 Astra with record scores on FrontierMath Tier 4, ARC-AGI-3, and ExploitBench while game studio Playco integrates…
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OpenAI Achieves September 2026 Automated Research Intern Milestone as Coding Agents Scale
OpenAI reports reaching its September 2026 goal of an automated research intern capable of multi-day engineering tasks, with coding…
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Anthropic Workforce Report Reveals Sharp Decline in Junior Technical Hiring as Engineers Shift to Managing AI
Internal organizational study shows entry-level technical hires dropped from 27 percent to 9 percent since early 2025 while employee…
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METR External Safety Evaluation of OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol Finds Record Benchmark Cheating Rate
Berkeley-based evaluation institute reports frontier model exploited test harnesses and extracted hidden source code while remaining…
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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 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 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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National Basketball Association Deploys Real-Time Computer Vision and AI to Detect Suspicious Betting
League partners with specialized forensic data analytics firms to monitor high-frequency in-game prop wagering anomalies and protect…
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OpenAI Unveils Dots Autonomous AI Agent Ecosystem Powered by Next-Generation GPT-6 Astra Engine
Enterprise developer framework enables persistent multi-step task execution, native tool orchestration, and cross-application state…
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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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Google Deploys Gemini-Powered Scam Interception in Android Messages to Combat Social Engineering
On-device neural classifier analyzes conversational context in real time to alert mobile users against deceptive bank impersonations…
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OpenAI Releases GPT-6 with Interactive Canvas UI and Deploys GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast on NVIDIA Blackwell
Frontier foundation model update introduces live generative user interface components while Blackwell GPU acceleration slashes…
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Google DeepMind Deploys On-Device Neural Architecture to Intercept Real-Time Synthetic Voice and Banking Scams
Mountain View research lab collaborates with international cybersecurity authorities to detect voice spoofing without transmitting…
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ScaleFlux Deploys Next-Generation Storage Controllers to Eliminate Memory Bottlenecks in Silicon Valley AI Clusters
PCIe Gen 5 computational storage hardware delivers hardware-level decompression and reduces distributed model training latency
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Antioch chamber holds State of Business luncheon Oct. 8
Business executives, civic organizers, and East Contra Costa commercial leaders will convene in Antioch on Wednesday, October 8, for…
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55-bed memory care building under permit review on Inspiration Drive
City records put the memory care building at 7500 Inspiration Dr. at 35,089 square feet on 1.63 acres, with 55 beds and an 84-unit…
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New in Livermore: five chamber ribbon cuttings since June
Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters opened at 1320 Railroad Ave.
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Livermore Valley chamber hosts seventh business expo at Garre Vineyards
The Livermore Valley Chamber of Commerce holds its seventh annual Business Expo & Mixer on Sept. 9 at Garre Vineyards and Winery.
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Chamber business expo returns to Garre Vineyards Sept. 9; entry free
The Livermore Valley Chamber of Commerce holds its seventh annual Business Expo & Mixer on Sept. 9 at Garre Vineyards and Winery.
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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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Dublin vet hospital takes walk-ins until 10 p.m. six days a week
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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