Daily Business Report: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
California Deploys Next-Gen Highway Patrol Vehicles to Stop ‘Video Game Style’ Driving
By Jill McLaughlin | The Epoch Times
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) said on May 8 that it has rolled out its newest weapon to crack down on what the department calls “video-game-style” driving by deploying specially marked patrol vehicles on busy highways.
“We’re deploying 100 of these vehicles statewide to confront a growing threat—aggressive drivers who speed excessively, tailgate, split lanes, and endanger lives,” CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee said Thursday in a social media video.
The CHP will use 2024 Dodge Durangos fitted with the latest lights and colors to blend into traffic.
The first 25 vehicles will be deployed across the state this week. All 100 of the units will be strategically placed along California’s busiest, high-risk roadways by June, the CHP said.
California regulator weakens AI rules, giving Big Tech more leeway to track you
By Khari Johnson | CalMatters
California’s first-in-the-nation privacy agency is retreating from an attempt to regulate artificial intelligence and other forms of computer automation.
The California Privacy Protection Agency was under pressure to back away from rules it drafted. Business groups, lawmakers, and Gov. Gavin Newsom said they would be costly to businesses, potentially stifle innovation, and usurp the authority of the legislature, where proposed AI regulations have proliferated. In a unanimous vote last week, the agency’s board watered down the rules, which impose safeguards on AI-like systems.
Agency staff estimate that the changes reduce the cost for businesses to comply in the first year of enforcement from $834 million to $143 million and predict that 90% percent of businesses initially required to comply will no longer have to do so.
Newsom wants cities to force homeless Californians to move camp every 3 days
By Marisa Kendall | CalMatters
Gov. Gavin Newsom has a new strategy to eliminate the large, long-standing homeless encampments that have been a thorn in his side throughout his administration: Push cities to make them illegal.
The governor on Monday called on every local government in the state to adopt ordinances that restrict public camping “without delay.” He provided a hypothetical model ordinance that lays out exactly what he’d like to see banned: Camping in one place for more than three nights in a row, building semi-permanent structures such as make-shift shacks on public property, and blocking streets or sidewalks.
“We want to see this model ordinance across the state of California,” Newsom said during a virtual news conference Monday. “We want to see how quickly communities that have not adopted a local ordinance adopt it.”
