• Tue. May 26th, 2026

The Pulse of Southern California

Bocce & Botanicals at Brookdale Ocean House Santa Monica

Brookdale Ocean House Kicks Off Bocce Season With Pollinator Garden Event Brookdale Ocean House will launch its bocce season Wednesday with a resident-led program pairing a game of bocce ball…

How Waymo and Waze are pitching in to help solve L.A.’s pothole problem

Waze and Waymo are teaming up to help combat Los Angeles’ growing pothole problem. The companies announced a program that will use Waymo’s self-driving cars to better detect potholes in…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses Molotov cocktail attack and AI backlash

Hours after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at his San Francisco home, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman addressed the criticism surrounding artificial intelligence that appears to have been the impetus…

Rain — and maybe thunderstorms — are expected in Los Angeles this weekend

Heavier rain is expected to fall across Los Angeles this weekend, bringing wetter weather and a chance for thunderstorms after spring kicked into full bloom. “This is when the weather…

How sensitive LAPD files got leaked online — and what happens next

The disciplinary files of Los Angeles police officers are closely guarded secrets, protected by some of the nation’s strictest confidentiality laws. But now, many of those secret files have been…

Wipe out a ‘civilization’? Minor stuff compared to what just happened in AI

While many of us were worried in recent days about our president ending a “whole civilization,” one Silicon Valley tech company was warning, without much notice, it might accidentally disrupt…

Santa Monica Pier Execs Mark Route 66 Chicago Start

Santa Monica Pier Corporation Published: April 09, 2026, 3:00 am Santa Monica Pier executives attended a dedication ceremony in Chicago last month marking Navy Pier as the new symbolic eastern…

Meta, Oracle and Qualcomm share details on layoffs across California

Tech behemoths, including Oracle and Meta Platforms, are laying off hundreds of California workers as they invest heavily in artificial intelligence. Some of the top companies in tech that already…

AI boom catapults San Francisco median home price above $2 million

The artificial intelligence boom has driven up San Francisco’s median home sales price to a record $2.15 million. Real estate brokerage firm Compass said that recent transactions showed that some…

Iran attempting cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure, officials say

WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies are “urgently warning” private sector companies throughout the nation that Iranian actors “are conducting exploitation activity” that has resulted in “disruptions across several U.S. critical…