San Jose Sharks donate $56k to help save local food bank

On Friday, the Sharks Foundation announced a five-figure donation to save a Second Harvest of Silicon Valley food bank from closure.

Billionaire-backed plan for Solano utopian city qualifies for ballot

A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in Solano County has qualified for the Nov. 5 ballot, elections officials said Tuesday.

South Bay to see more self-driving cars on the road

One driverless taxi service plans to stretch its presence into the South Bay, after years of testing its autonomous technology.

Campaign to build new California city submits signatures to get on November ballot

A wealthy Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area has submitted what it says are enough signatures to qualify the initiative for the November election.

Slack co-founder, former CEO's child reunited with family after running away

Mint Butterfield, the 16-year-old child of the co-founder of the messaging app Slack, was located Saturday and reunited safely with their family after running away from home on April 21, the Marin County Sheriff's Office said Sunday.   

Will TikTok leave San Jose if ban takes hold?

The U.S. TikTok ban is raising questions about the app's future in San Jose, where its Chinese parent company, Bytedance, is expanding its office space.   

Tesla to lay off thousands of employees in Fremont and Palo Alto

Electric vehicle company Tesla will lay off thousands of employees across its Bay Area locations this June, according to documents filed with the California Employment Development Department on Tuesday.

'Think again,' Google says to protesters as fired employees speak out

Pro-Palestine demonstrators are speaking out after Google fired 28 employees for protesting at their offices in Sunnyvale, Seattle, and New York on Tuesday.

Friends remember Truckee plane crash victims as Silicon Valley entrepreneurs

Federal investigators are working to determine the cause of a deadly plane crash in Truckee on Saturday night where the wreckage was scattered along the railroad tracks.

Nvidia's San Jose GTC Conference 2024 keys in on AI chips as stock skyrockets

Some of the world’s greatest scientists and engineers have converged on Downtown San Jose for the next four days. This is as Nvidia holds its GTC Conference 2024.

East Palo Alto robotics team headed to world championship in Houston

To qualify for the championship, the ChurroBots were a part of a winning alliance at the FIRST Robotics Competition, Silicon Valley Regional last weekend.

Chinese citizen, Google employee arrested for stealing trade secrets

A Chinese citizen living in Newark was arrested and charged on Wednesday morning with stealing confidential artificial intelligence (AI) files from Google while he was employed as a software engineer. 

OpenAI releases emails with Elon Musk; 'We're sad that it's come to this'

The leadership team at OpenAI has released a set of private emails with Elon Musk in response to a lawsuit he filed against the company and its CEO Sam Altman.