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Pizza Glue and Rock Eaters: Google’s AI Overview

Jul 31, 2024

How Google bungled its AI search summary rollout and why it’s opposing legislative efforts to rescue journalism in California

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California Forever CEO on Democracy and Community Building

May 22, 2024

Jan Sramek, who has raised nearly $1 billion to build a new city between San Francisco and Sacramento, swears that he believes in democracy.

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Proposition 1 Post-Op: The End of Deinstitutionalization?

Apr 3, 2024

Before the March election, a poll showed nearly 70% support for Proposition 1 and no funded opposition campaign. Why was it so close?

Summer Sampler

May 18, 2022

What’s different about the summer of 2022? For the first time since COVID entered the picture, all the harbingers of summer are here. Bands...

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Thrive, a two-hour documentary that has gone viral since its release on the web in November, sells itself as an optimistic vision of a utopian future marked by 'free energy,' freedom from oppression and spiritual awakening. Read the latest features and columns from the South Bay's Metro Newspaper, and find information on upcoming events, lifestyle, the arts and more.