AI Copyright Push: California’s Senate advanced a bill requiring generative AI developers to disclose copyrighted training materials, with voice actors and creators pressing for the right to know what was used and to sue if they’re blocked. Privacy Tech Meets Firearms: A separate measure would require 3D printers sold in California to include software that blocks printing firearm components—raising alarms about surveillance and “ghost gun” enforcement. Hollywood Antitrust Fight: California and a coalition of states, plus the Writers Guild, are suing to stop Paramount Skydance’s Warner Bros. Discovery merger, arguing it would crush competition and harm writers’ pay and working conditions. Local Recovery Watch: Pacific Palisades residents say wildfire rebuilding is still stuck on money, contractors, and permitting despite streamlined processes. Energy & Industry: Kern County independents warn pipeline access and widening discounts are squeezing smaller oil producers as California Resources seeks to buy the San Pablo Bay Pipeline. Consumer Costs: Disneyland raised menu prices, and a new index ranks the Anaheim parks among the least affordable theme parks. Public Safety & Data Brokers: California’s “Senior Lists” crackdown lets residents delete themselves from data broker lists statewide starting Aug. 1.