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  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    House & Home
    Where I write — Shalom Auslander on the glory of LA’s uncool, unfancy coffee shops

    The author has turned his back on Fancy Coffee Places and started working in less salubrious establishments — and the words flow

    Outside view of an unassuming-looking coffee shop in Los Angeles, with an inset of a faded chess table and the picture of a smiling man with grey curly hair
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Christopher Grimes
    Can LA end its love affair with cars?

    Ahead of the 2028 Olympics, the city has quietly become the leader in US public transport investment

    View down Rodeo Drive  drive with cars and palm trees and blue sky
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    California’s divisive AI safety bill sets up tough decision for governor Newsom

    State’s attempt to impose a regulatory framework on the fast-emerging technology has split opinion in Silicon Valley

    Gavin Newsom speaks to the press while attending the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. He is flanked by security personnel, and microphones are held out towards him.
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Artist Carl Cheng: ‘I’m not a guy that wants to be a celebrity’

    His first retrospective, at the age of 82, showcases work which satirises wealth, technology and the American drive for more

  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    FT Magazine
    The US college campus where there are no culture wars

    The college in the Californian desert where cowboys are in and campus culture wars are out

    A young man shirtless, but with his shirt wrapped around his head, standing over a pile of weed branches and leaves in a field, with a tractor in the background
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    OpenAI joins opposition to California AI safety bill

    ChatGPT maker says legislation would harm innovation and stifle start-ups in the state

    A symbol for the OpenAI virtual assistant arranged on a smartphone
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Music
    Symphonies and opera houses need to innovate as funding crunch bites

    From philanthropy to the public purse, classical music institutions are in search of new sources of money

  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    ReviewFilm
    Jackpot! film review — life’s a lottery in dystopian comedy

    Paul Feig’s dayglo satire about a world in which people hunt each other for cash offers axe battles and bruised testicles aplenty

    A young woman with blood on her face looks in shock at a lottery ticket
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Climate change
    Californian fires burn trees in company carbon schemes

    Forestry programmes part of climate plans are under threat from intense blazes

    A firefighter monitors backfire during the Park Fire in Tehama County’s Mill Creek area of California on August 7
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Chevron Corp
    Chevron to move headquarters from California to Texas

    Relocation is the latest in a wave of defections from companies lured to Lone Star State by lower taxes and lighter regulation

    Storage tanks at Chevron’s refinery in Richmond, California, US
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    ReviewFilm
    Dìdi — home truths hurt in bittersweet take on teen angst

    Sean Wang’s tale of growing up as a Taiwanese kid in Noughties California is playfully autobiographical

    A mother laughs as her son comically opens his mouth with food in it as he sits across the table from her at a fast-food restaurant at night
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    News in-depthHollywood
    Can Marvel’s ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ revive the box office?

    The movie business is hoping for a turnaround after limping into the summer season with a shortage of big movies

    Still image from the film ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Gig economy
    Uber and Lyft score victory in landmark California gig economy case

    State’s supreme court says ride-hailing services can treat workers as contractors rather than employees

    A person walks near an Uber sign at Los Angeles airport
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Anjney Midha
    California’s anti-AI bill undermines the sector’s achievements

    Laws should not be written without collaboration from expert developers, investors and researchers

    Google Quantum AI, leads media on a tour of the Quantum Computing Lab
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Elon Musk
    Musk says he will move SpaceX and X headquarters to Texas from California

    Billionaire entrepreneur labels state law on transgender children as ‘final straw’

    Elon Musk
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    House & Home
    Inside the mind of a Nimby

    They are widely derided, but deep down isn’t everyone a Nimby? And shouldn’t we try to understand why people fear change close to home?

  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    HTSI
    How to spend it in July

    Where to shop, eat and visit this midsummer

    Zara Home x Collagerie canvas tablecloth, £29.99
  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    San Francisco
    San Francisco Fed president says tech heads can help city avoid ‘doom loop’

    Mary Daly points to workers being ordered back to the office and other steps required to regenerate depleted downtown

    People walking in the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    News in-depthArtificial intelligence
    Silicon Valley in uproar over Californian AI safety bill

    Tech companies launch fightback against proposed law to introduce ‘kill switch’ on powerful artificial intelligence models

    Image of people working on computers below a sign for artificial intelligence
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Inside BusinessTabby Kinder
    Can the AI boom stop the tech exodus from San Francisco?

    Vast swaths of office space have been left empty after a big shift to remote working

    Uber headquarters in San Francisco
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Design
    When the Design Miami fair came to Los Angeles

    Savvy collectors including moneyed millennials and Gen Zs turned up for the fair’s first outing in the city

    white house with pool and design objects for sale on the lawn, such as a garden bench whose slats curl away into elaborate metal swirls and metal sculptures
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    LexElaine Moore
    The Lex Newsletter: OpenAI and the case for techno-optimism Premium content

    Trust in tech may have declined but demand for its services and shares is at an all-time high

    A view of the Golden Gate Bridge and Presidio park in San Francisco
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    Residential
    Fantasy home: The Graduate’s seductive suburban sprawl

    Our writer finds pool-side peace and a dreamy escape from bustling LA in this classic 1960s movie

  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    John Thornhill
    The great American innovation engine is firing again

    Federal government moves against Asian tech have brought investment rushing in

    View of Apollo Lunar Module 3, built for Nasa’s Apollo space programme, undergoing a docking test at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 1968
  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    HTSIThe HTSI summer motoring special
    24 hours of Lemons, the real Wacky Races

    In America’s answer to Le Mans, the cars cost no more than $500, the contestants are amateur and the mood is resolutely zany

    A 1963 Volvo 544 (centre) and a 1995 BMW 318ti (right) at a Lemons event
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