In a few short years, the artificial intelligence industry has transformed places such as central Ohio, where farmland is giving way to data centers and computer chip factories. Companies are so desperate to secure power for these projects that some, like Meta, are looking beyond the electric grid. Developers are...
Iran Denies Talks With US After Trump Postpones Strikes on Power Grid
Iran denied on Monday that it had engaged in negotiations with the United States, after President Donald Trump postponed a threat to bomb Iran's power grid because of what he described as productive talks with unidentified Iranian officials. Trump wrote early in the U.S. morning on his Truth Social platform...
Fresno Police Arrest 10 for DUI at Saturday Checkpoint
Fresno police arrested 10 drivers for suspected impaired driving during a DUI checkpoint on Saturday night. The checkpoint ran from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. at Clinton and Weber avenues, where officers contacted 322 vehicles. In addition to the DUI arrests, 34 drivers were cited for operating a vehicle without...
Merced Police Arrest 12 in Multi-County Online Child Predator Operation
Merced police and partner agencies arrested 12 individuals in a multi-agency online child predator operation targeting people seeking sexual contact with minors, authorities said. The operation, conducted on Thursday and Friday, involved the Merced Police Department, Merced County Sheriff’s Department, Merced County District Attorney’s investigators, and the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s...
Gas Prices Have Jumped More Than 30% in Some States in 2 Weeks
Early Friday evening, Jay Robinson, a Dallas insurance adjuster, pulled into his local QuikTrip gas station for a coffee break. As he filled his cup, drivers stopping at the pumps confronted prices that had spiked more than 30% since the outbreak of war in Iran. Robinson, 42, has been hit...
Why Did Clovis Shut Down Planet Fitness?
Planet Fitness may have a "judgement free zone" (the misspelling is part of the brand). But the city of Clovis has judged the gym franchise closed until further notice. The gym in the shopping center at Shaw and Clovis avenues (634 Shaw Ave.) has been closed since March 17 because...
eBay Down for Thousands of Users, Downdetecter Shows
eBay experienced a possible outage Monday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 2,700 users had reported problems with the platform as of 11:05 a.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reporting problems to Downdetector said...
OpenAI to Nearly Double Workforce to 8,000 by End-2026, FT Reports
Artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce to 8,000 from 4,500 by the end of 2026, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing two people with knowledge of the matter. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. OpenAI did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment....
Trump Tells Republicans to Pass Voting Law ‘for Jesus’
President Donald Trump on Monday urged Republicans in Congress to work through the upcoming Easter holiday in a bid to pass a voter identification bill that Democrats strongly oppose. Trump said the voting bill should be included in any agreement to fund the Homeland Security department, which has been partially...
Cave Rescuer John Volanthen To Share Thai Rescue Story in Fresno
Claustrophobia is not an option for John Volanthen. Being in tight spaces is a job requirement to engage in daring cave rescues. "We all have our different fears, just the same as we all have different sets of skills. Certainly when I'm underground, I don't tend to think about how...