Through letters and stakeholder meetings, the Chavez Center and Foundation successfully lobbied for a bespoke alignment called the “refined Cesar Chavez National Monument design option,” which moved the track about three-quarters of a mile away from the monument boundary. Shaped as a wide curve rather than a straight line, the route would pass over viaducts and access roads and through two tunnels, each one longer than a mile and a half.

To build it, the authority would need more track, more tunneling, and — on top of everything — a massive dirt berm, stretching about 1,700 feet, to conceal the train and blend with the desert hills.

All of those elements combined added $815 million to the project tab in “2020 dollars” — more than $1 billion today, when adjusted for inflation.

Sullivan & Cromwell, a premier Wall Street law firm, apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing with inaccurate citations and other errors generated by artificial intelligence.

In a letter dated April 18, Andrew Dietderich, co-head of the firm's global restructuring group, said the errors included AI "hallucinations" - instances in which AI makes up case citations, misquotes the law or generates non-existent legal sources.

They can fly to a nice tropical country and waste time pretending to do things so they can tell their voters how much they've accomplished.

Despite all those guns, you've still got an unaccountable dictator in charge.

The effect on open software and hardware is also disastrous.

No one is going to fall for that again, China.

The easier way is just not to do business in California. If someone downloads the operating system in a way that doesn't include any commercial transaction, that's on them, not you.

It is quite illegal to "replace" workers only because they use their legal right to negotiate working conditions. It would be a surefire way to get the company in trouble.

Ubisoft shares plunged 34% on Thursday after the maker of the Assassin’s Creed video games announced a major organizational shake-up, alongside plans to shut studios and axe six games.

The changes come following years of stock price decline, following the Covid-19 pandemic, after delays to major releases and financial struggles.

The company, which is listed in Paris, said it expected to make an operating loss of around 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion) in the financial year ending 2026, following a 650 million euro write-down caused by the restructuring.