https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/10/21/california-big-tech-wins-regulations/

As public sentiment toward Big Tech sours in Silicon Valley and across the country, the industry nevertheless had a banner year dodging regulation in the California legislature.

Of some 60 bills to rein in the industry, fewer than 20 passed, many watered down, said David Harris, a Chancellor’s Public Scholar at UC Berkeley who studies tech regulation. Among the casualties: Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill to throw up guardrails against the light-speed expansion of artificial intelligence technology, and brokered a deal between lawmakers and Google to kill legislation that would have made the search giant pay the struggling news media for using their journalism.