The Latest Breaking News from Palo Alto

Did Tesla Tease Next-Gen Platform / $25K Model In Engineering HQ Video?

Tesla announced that its Engineering headquarters will be located in Palo Alto, CA. In the video for the announcement, it seems the new platform appears.

InsideEVs · Feb 23, 2023

Tesla will base engineering HQ in Palo Alto at former H-P site

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Tesla has decided to base its engineering headquarters in Palo Alto at a former Hewlett-Packard site, the company's top boss Elon Musk announced on Wednesday.

Tribune News Service · Feb 22, 2023

Tesla Will Base Its Global Engineering Headquarters In California

Tesla did not provide details about the implications of the move, such as how many jobs will be created and the incentive package likely offered by California.

InsideEVs · Feb 22, 2023

GM partners with Silicon Valley company on battery tech

General Motors Co. and Palo Alto-based OneD Battery Sciences have entered a joint research development agreement for the potential use of OneD's silicon nanotechnology in GM's battery cells to increase energy density for longer range at a lower cost.

Tribune News Service · Sep 29, 2022

Snap chops nearly 500 California jobs, more than 80 in Bay Area

PALO ALTO, California — Snap has decided to chop nearly 500 jobs in California, including scores of layoffs in the Bay Area, a brutal round of cost-cutting ushered in by a string of setbacks in the financial results for the Snapchat owner.

Tribune News Service · Sep 9, 2022

Elizabeth Holmes tries and fails to get jury’s fraud verdict thrown out for good

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, convicted by a jury in January of four counts of defrauding investors in her now-defunct Palo Alto blood-testing startup, appeared in federal court in San Jose on Thursday seeking to have the verdict thrown out, with no new trial, but the judge in a preliminary ruling…

Tribune News Service · Sep 1, 2022

Commentary: Monkeypox is not the next COVID. But it’s spreading from the same failures

The recent discovery by Stanford scientists that wastewater in Palo Alto, Sacramento and other cities in the Bay Area contains monkeypox DNA means that the outbreak has gained traction in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a monkeypox emergency on Monday.

Los Angeles Times · Aug 4, 2022

Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal over fake accounts

Elon Musk's legal team has warned Twitter that the Tesla boss could walk away from a $44 billion deal to buy the social media giant, accusing it of breaching its contractual obligations by not sharing information about how fake accounts are calculated. We take a closer look. Plus, at its…

France 24 · Jun 7, 2022

Cousin of Raiders WR Davante Adams shot, killed in East Palo Alto

Ralph Fields Jr, cousin of Davante Adams shot and killed in East Palo Alto

USA Today Sports Media Group · May 19, 2022

Brickbat: What Matters Most

The Palo Alto, California, police department said it is investigating the vandalism of a "Black Lives Matter" sign as a hate crime. Someone replaced the word "black" with the word "Asian" on a sign in the yard of a woman's home. The woman said the sign was valued at $10.

Reason · Apr 19, 2022