Op-eds, research summaries, progress updates, and explainers on CalCompute — California's publicly owned AI infrastructure initiative established by SB-53.https://californiacompute.org/en-ushttps://californiacompute.org/articles/courtroom-calcompute/https://californiacompute.org/articles/courtroom-calcompute/Justice-Involved Veterans in Los Angeles County Move Through a Web of Agencies That Cannot See Each Other. CalCompute Is How We Fix ThatThu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTOp-EdJames DeBaccohttps://californiacompute.org/articles/cloud-war-calcompute/https://californiacompute.org/articles/cloud-war-calcompute/What the 2026 Iran conflict reveals about California's digital future — and why commercial data centers becoming military targets makes the case for CalCompute more urgent than ever.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOp-EdUC CalCompute Coalitionhttps://californiacompute.org/articles/when-washington-proved/https://californiacompute.org/articles/when-washington-proved/The federal government's dramatic rupture with Anthropic, its embrace of OpenAI under weakened safeguards, and the confirmed deployment of commercial AI in military strikes have done more in eight weeks to make the case for a sovereign public compute infrastructure than years of policy advocacy.Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOp-EdUC CalCompute Coalitionhttps://californiacompute.org/articles/cloud-outage-evidence/https://californiacompute.org/articles/cloud-outage-evidence/Twenty-six months of documented commercial cloud failures reveal a pattern of systemic fragility that the CalCompute Initiative was designed to address — and a direct line from those failures to the policy case for a sovereign public computing infrastructure.Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchUC CalCompute Coalitionhttps://californiacompute.org/articles/sb-53-explained/https://californiacompute.org/articles/sb-53-explained/Senate Bill 53 — the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act — is the most significant state-level response to the AI era yet. Here is everything Californians need to know about what it does, why it exists, and how it differs from last year's vetoed predecessor.Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTExplainerLegislativeUC CalCompute Coalitionhttps://californiacompute.org/articles/sb-1047-veto/https://californiacompute.org/articles/sb-1047-veto/Governor Gavin Newsom today vetoed the most ambitious AI safety bill in American history. His reasons were carefully worded — but they raise questions that Californians deserve honest answers to.Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTOp-EdLegislativeUC CalCompute Coalitionhttps://californiacompute.org/articles/sb-1047-explained/https://californiacompute.org/articles/sb-1047-explained/A landmark piece of legislation passed both chambers of California's legislature and arrived at Governor Newsom's desk — one that would impose the nation's most far-reaching safety requirements on the most powerful artificial intelligence systems ever built.Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTExplainerLegislativeUC CalCompute Coalition