Supervisors approved the County's 2026 AI work plan, including a discounted Claude contract. We look at what changed, and imagine one AI interface that could search every County site and database.

Ukraine attacked Russian data centers and shortly after a graph that illustrated a massive drop off of bot activity went viral. Unfortunately, the graph was quite misleading.

The Salinas-based agricultural technology incubator will open its first Pacific Northwest location in spring 2027, focusing on robotics for tree fruit, blueberries and other high-value crops.

g-SPACE, the Startup World Cup Santa Cruz Regional champion, uses physics and AI to show companies what happens when gravity disappears, before they spend a fortune launching anything into orbit.

Our annual awards event is BACK and with a new name: Wavemaker Awards…and nominations are now open!

A former cash-services operator built FlowLogicAI to give physical cash logistics an AI operating system, with eight pilot customers signed, an MVP launching this winter, and a pre-seed round open.

Fifteen finalists, most of them women, pitched at The Catalyst on October 17. Sunnyvale’s G-SPACE took the regional title and a ticket to the Startup World Cup Grand Finale in San Francisco. Photo credits: Kalen Dion, Doug Erickson

In our Company Spotlight tour of Cat & Cloud on October 16, 2026, we learned how one Pleasure Point café grew into four shops and a roastery by betting on clear values and real human connection.

UC Santa Cruz's Economics Department is exploring whether its one-year MS in Quantitative Economics & Finance could serve working professionals in Santa Cruz County, and it's asking our community to weigh in.

La Selva Beach's Parallel Flight Technologies has tapped Australia's Drone Forge to distribute its Firefly heavy-lift drone across Asia-Pacific, just as wildfire seasons grow longer, larger, and less predictable on both continents.

Mountainfilm on Tour returns to the Rio Theatre on Saturday, November 14, with an evening of films connected to Mountainfilm’s mission of using film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world. Learn how you can win tickets to see it.

A Santa Cruz success story reaches a major milestone on Wall Street, demonstrating how a community-focused bank can grow without losing sight of its roots.

Founded by longtime friends Lara and Natasha, the new Santa Cruz County business is bringing customizable grazing experiences to corporate gatherings, weddings and private celebrations.

After nearly a decade of developing sustainable alternatives to plastic packaging, the Santa Cruz startup has closed, with its intellectual property acquired by TemperPack. Former executive Toby Corey reflects on the challenges of building a business around promising technology and the lessons for other entrepreneurs.

After watching dementia reshape his father's life, David Schutz built Fitafter50 , an AI-enabled platform delivering personalized, bite-sized fitness and wellness guidance for people over 50. He will present at SCWorks New Tech on November 5.

Local young adults ages can earn a paycheck and build real career skills through our AHSC Internship Opportunity Program, now in its second cohort and partnering with Cabrillo College.

Bootstrapped and cash-flow positive, Santa Cruz startup Kharros is now listed on the Pentagon's CDAO marketplace and running an autonomous BD engine for about 30 government-focused companies.

OpenAI just dumped 722 math manuscripts on a field that can't read them fast enough. Picture Kai Lenny backflipping out of a 200-foot barrel. Now picture trying to judge it.

Joby Aviation's rise in the Monterey Bay region is often told as a story about one company. It's really a story about a region that spent years building the workforce infrastructure making that success possible, long before most people were paying attention.

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Ross Blocher, a Santa Cruz County–raised animation veteran who once memorized 3,200 digits of pi, joins 3DE Club’s Advisory Board to mentor Gen Alpha students at the intersection of creativity, technology, and storytelling.