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Serving San Jose, California (Santa Clara County)Vol. 1, No. 12

EditionThursday, Nov. 5, 2026 · Vol. 1, No. 10 · Tonight: Mostly Cloudy then Patchy Fog, low 48°F

Illustration of a towering dark stone wall that fills the frame, with glowing gold and blue threads of light spilling over its top and through its cracks, as five small human silhouettes stand on rocky ground below, looking up at it.
AI-generated illustration; it does not show any real AI system, lab or person.  It imagines a self-improving AI as light behind a wall people cannot see past, echoing Vernor Vinge's 1993 phrase "an opaque wall across the future." — AI-generated illustration
Technology

The Singularity Looms:  We Can't See Past the Event Horizon, and That's What Should Scare You

Anthropic and Google say AI now writes most of their code, and AI labs say it is speeding up their own research.  No one claims AI fully improves itself yet, but the companies' own reports warn that once it does, people may not be able to see inside it, predict what comes next or keep it under control.

Technology desk · Thu.

Ortiz, Doan and Altwer lead San Jose council races with about half of county ballots counted

Measure RTM had 54.14% yes in the county.  Here are San Jose's council, school, county, legislative and proposition results so far.

Santa Clara County election results: every city, school district, county race and state proposition so far

Countywide turnout so far is 29.66%, with about half of ballots still uncounted.  Mayoral races in Milpitas, Morgan Hill and Santa Clara are among the contests.

Campbell council approves 290 homes at Technology Park site, 3-1

Mayor Daniel Furtado voted no; Councilmember Elliot Scozzola was absent. The project is a builder's remedy plan that replaces the R&D campus.

San Jose police switch to 12 patrol districts on Sunday

Officers will cover whole districts instead of fixed beats, a change the department says should cut response times.

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    San José State women's volleyball falls 3-1 at Grand Canyon

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    Stanford women's soccer beats Boston College 2-1 to close regular season

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    OpenAI’s Images 2.6 adds GIF animation and faster picture generation

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    Meta to buy Conductor, maker of multi-agent AI coding tools

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    Serve Robotics opens its fleet tech to other robot companies as Physical AI Services

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