Newsom orders California to weigh Artificial Intelligence harms in contract rules

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order directing California agencies to account for potential Artificial Intelligence harms in state contracting while expanding approved use of generative tools across government. The move follows a dispute involving Anthropic and reflects a broader split between California and the Trump administration on Artificial Intelligence oversight.

Google launches Gemma 4 open model family

Google has introduced Gemma 4, a new family of open-weight Artificial Intelligence models focused on advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities. The release expands the Gemma line with broader deployment options, stronger performance claims and a more permissive open source license.

PrismML launches 1-bit large language model family

PrismML has emerged from stealth with a $16.25 million seed round and an open source release of its 1-bit Bonsai large language models. The startup says the models sharply cut memory use and energy consumption while aiming to preserve performance on standard benchmarks.

Fda shifts its breakthrough standard for clinical Artificial Intelligence

The Food and Drug Administration appears to be raising the bar for what qualifies as a breakthrough clinical Artificial Intelligence device. Priority is increasingly going to systems that address broad, complex medical problems rather than tools that simply improve physicians’ existing capabilities.