Legislation would place guardrails on artificial intelligence, even as its importance to the state economy grows.

Some of California's new laws aim to tackle artificial intelligence, wildfire recovery assistance, immigration and consumer issues.

A lot of the best sci-fi movies have nothing to do with science. In Back to the Future, for instance, Doc Brown builds a time machine by retrofitting a DeLorean with a Flux Capacitor. Or in Star Wars, an accomplished Jedi can float boulders by using The Force. It makes for great cinema, but it’s not based in reality.

In his final State of the State, Newsom touted climate wins and warned that the U.S. is falling behind China in the clean energy race.

Buoyed by $17 billion more in revenue than previously planned, the state would have a modest surplus of $363 million for fiscal year 2025-26, he told reporters in January.