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Wednesday, September 30, 20263 notes
- Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival, via Rancho Mirage ChamberIndio
the indio fair will judge ai art by asking for your prompts
Most entries are due online by January 18, 2027. The fair runs February 11-28 at the Riverside County Fairgrounds in Indio.
- Hospitality.TodayCoachella Valley
expedia says you'll soon book hotels inside meta's ai agent. can a hotel get the same?
Expedia says travelers will soon book hotels inside Meta's Muse agent. Hospitality.Today says hotels can't apply for the same hookup; Meta's page is silent.
- OpenAICoachella Valley
openai plans chatgpt workshops at small business development centers
OpenAI and America's SBDC plan to train about 150 advisors and run ChatGPT workshops. The announcement doesn't name which local centers will take part.
Tuesday, September 29, 20262 notes
- City of Palm SpringsPalm Springs
palm springs to consider a longer data-center pause
Palm Springs' definition of a data center reaches cloud computing, AI training or processing and email servicing, but not servers secondary to the main use of a site, such as a hospital's or an office's.
- The Desert SunCoachella Valley
the short version: the desertsun.com item on the grant behind this site
A quick read of the September 25 desertsun.com item on the grant behind AICV News, written by the Inland Empire Community Foundation's Greg Archer.
Saturday, September 19, 20264 notes
- AnthropicCoachella Valley
anthropic and accenture each expect to spend $1 billion on evaluators inside the lab
The valley's nine city halls and Riverside County can buy Claude at a discount under California's June deal; these evaluators will work inside the company that builds it.
- Office of the Governor of CaliforniaCoachella Valley
california created a registry for ai auditors, and told the state to move faster
AB 1405 created a state registry for AI auditors. An executive order now accelerates implementation and convenes experts to recommend what to require next.
- MetaCoachella Valley
meta opens muse to outside services, and there's a review to pass
A business here that wants to be reachable inside Meta's agent now has a named path to it.
- Music Business WorldwideCoachella Valley
universal and sony sue suno again over v6 training lineage
If you make songs, jingles or ads here with Suno, this suit is about the newest model you can use.
Wednesday, September 16, 20262 notes
- OpenAICoachella Valley
openai is testing ads you can talk to, and puts chatgpt ads inside shopify and hubspot
A shop here that sells on Shopify, or keeps its customers in HubSpot, can build and run ChatGPT ads from inside those tools from September 16.
- The GuardianCoachella Valley
the mirror's publisher cuts 220 newsroom jobs and stops counting page views
The Desert Sun, the valley's daily, is owned by USA Today Co., a publisher now openly weighing whether to stay in Google search at all.
Monday, September 14, 20265 notes
- OpenAICoachella Valley
openai builds a chatgpt for bankers, with the data and the citations already inside
The valley's wealth advisers, CPAs and estate planners are not on this page; wealth management goes unmentioned.
- OpenAICoachella Valley
openai's phone-ready voice model listens and talks at once, at $0.05 a minute
The people who answer the phone at a restaurant, a hotel front desk or a clinic here are who this touches; the calls OpenAI names are reservations and customer support.
- OpenAICoachella Valley
openai puts the harness behind codex up for rent: the agents api, in public beta
Any developer here can now build on the harness OpenAI runs for Codex; the local software shops and solo builders are who this touches.
- OpenAICoachella Valley
openai drops its license fee to zero for state, local and tribal governments from october 1
The nine city halls, Riverside County and the tribal governments here are all covered by OpenAI's new government agreement from October 1.
- ReutersCoachella Valley
wipro says ai freed output equal to 20,000 employees, and it redeployed them
The owners and managers here deciding what to do with the hours a tool frees are the people this touches; this is one company's answer at the scale of 20,000.
Thursday, September 10, 20269 notes
- The Artificial Intelligence ShowCoachella Valley
"dread over excitement": a marketing-ai veteran's first read on astra
The valley's agencies sell the same billable hours Roetzer once did, and a tenth of the time is one former agency owner's estimate, not a measurement.
- Modern Counsel, citing the Financial TimesCoachella Valley
wall street's banks want law firms to hand over the savings from ai
These are Wall Street clients and their outside law firms, but the question Citigroup is asking, what did AI save you and where is it on the invoice, is one any law office or accounting firm here can now be asked.
- VentureBeatCoachella Valley
openai's gpt-6 astra is built to run a computer, not answer questions
A property manager's front office or a clinic's here does the work this model is sold on, all day.
- NYC Mayor's OfficeCoachella Valley
new york city bans student ai through eighth grade for a year, and teaches it in high school
What students may use, at what age, and what teachers may: New York answered it in writing, and Palm Springs Unified, Desert Sands Unified and Coachella Valley Unified face the same question this school year.
- Google Cloud Press CornerCoachella Valley
accenture and google are hiring 1,000 engineers to put agents inside other companies
Nobody here hires a thousand of anything. The job description is the local part: know the business, know the tools, own the result, in a valley of hotels, clinics and city halls.
- Bipartisan Policy CenterCoachella Valley
ai-skills job postings are up 165 percent, and accountants' offices are in the top ten
Accountants' offices are in the top ten industries posting for AI skills, and the small professional offices that serve the valley's hotels, clinics and property owners are the same kind of shop.
- Mastercard NewsroomCoachella Valley
mastercard: a tenth of shoppers could buy through agents by 2030; teens more willing than parents
Teenagers were readier than their parents to let an agent shop for them in Mastercard's survey, and the valley's shops sell to both.
- Meta NewsroomCoachella Valley
meta's muse is a personal agent that keeps working after you close the app
The visitor picking a hotel, the family comparing schools and the company weighing a second office here can now send an agent that reads a business's site, listings and reviews before a person does.
- Stripe NewsroomCoachella Valley
stripe lets meta's agent pay at a million businesses, with a one-time card everywhere else
A restaurant, a contractor or a shop here doesn't have to add anything to be bought from by someone's agent; if a customer can pay you with a card today, Stripe says, an agent can too.