Seven local news sites restrict AI crawlers

Palm Desert sets rules for AI at City Hall

PALM DESERT — AI speaking for the city must identify itself. Residents must have a way to seek human review when a high-risk use materially influences a decision about them.

Riverside weighs a data-center ban

RIVERSIDE — A councilmember wants an explicit ban in city code. A committee recommended a 90-day pause on new proposals, the Raincross Gazette reported.

Riverside starts work on an AI strategy

RIVERSIDE — Three councilmembers will spend 13 months examining how AI could affect city services, local jobs and infrastructure.

when personal agents shop, the shopper stops browsing

By Sat Singh

AI shopping agents could take the friction out of buying. Before we call that efficiency, name the task removed, who did it, and where the money goes.

four valley cities wrote data-center rules this summer. who writes the rest?

By Sat Singh

Coachella's ban takes effect Friday. Palm Springs, Indio and Desert Hot Springs each approved a pause this summer. On the rules that will shape more than land use, nobody from here is in the room.

reach built the newsroom google wanted. google stopped sending the clicks.

By Sat Singh

Reach gave reporters page-view targets and built local 'Live' sites for Google to find. Wednesday it cut 220 journalists and told its newsrooms: 'less emphasis on story volume.' That sentence is the whole story.