TechEquity

1/ Huge win! Gavin Newsom signed AB 325 into law. This means companies can no longer collude to drive up prices on basic goods by using fancy pricing algorithms. The last thing Californians need is more of their hard earned cash going to pad the pockets of greedy corporate executives.

AB 325 modernizes California’s antitrust laws to address algorithmic price fixing, closing loopholes that corporations have exploited to drive up the cost of living for Californians.

www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/06/g...

@catherinebracy.com @economicsecurityproject.org @econliberties.bsky.social

Why is everything so expensive these days? There are a lot of reasons, but among them is that competitors are using algorithms to collude, raising prices together.

That’s why we’re thrilled that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social signed the Preventing Algorithmic Price Fixing Act #AB325 into law!

California bill regulating top AI companies signed into law The law is one of the first in the U.S. to place new regulations on AI companies.

Gavin Newsom signed the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 53), placing regulations on top AI companies.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

How Californians Feel About AI - Findings From the 2025 AI Compass - TechEquity Collaborative We surveyed over a thousand Californians about AI to find out if organizations and legislators have it right or are missing the mark.

So will legislators step up to the plate or miss the moment?

Learn more about what Californians think about AI and AI policy: techequity.us/2025/08/19/h...

Democracies are generally supposed to reflect the sentiments of everyday people.

And an overwhelming majority of Californians favor policies that establish guardrails and accountability, including protecting privacy (81%), civil rights (73%), and enacting non-discrimination rules (73%).

Tenant Protections A tool for California tenants to understand their rights under state and local rent control

Luckily, we made it easy.

With one quick protections quiz and a rent increase calculator, you and your neighbors can understand what protections you’re eligible for and which laws your landlord may have violated.

tenantprotections.org

YouTube video by TechEquity California renters, listen up!

Rent caps are down across California, limiting how much your landlord can raise your rent.

But between inadequate documentation and complicated calculations, how can you know what that means for you?

www.youtube.com/shorts/1h7RC...

Two decades later, the label of AI still hides a world of interconnected workers in the U.S. and abroad who keep the magic going. That's why ee collaborated with @alphabetworkersunion.org to investigate what conditions they’re working under.

This is what we found: techequity.us/2025/09/30/g...

I Found Work on an Amazon Website. I Made 97 Cents an Hour. (Published 2019) Our reporter takes you inside the weird, wild, low-wage world of Mechanical Turk.

In 2005, Amazon publicly launched Mechanical Turk (MTurk for short)—a service that allows anyone to hire workers from around the world to carry out ‘micro’ tasks. At the time, CEO Jeff Bezos called MTurk ‘artificial intelligence’.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tenant Protections A tool for California tenants to understand their rights under state and local rent control

Neat tool/resource for tracking how much your rent is allowed under #California state law to go up annually: tenantprotections.org

Tool from @techequity.bsky.social & ACCE.

If you are interested in tracking the businesses that make data usable for AI systems, check out this resource and microsite we created at @techequity.bsky.social:

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Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.

In the wake of the government shutdown, the Department of Housing and Urban Development website played the blame game. @wired.com

www.wired.com/story/govern...

Tenants Seek to Unionize One Private Equity Firm's Entire Housing Portfolio By organizing renters across Capital Realty Group’s affordable housing complexes, the Tenant Union Federation hopes to bring sectoral bargaining to negotiations with large landlords.

More than 1,000 renters in complexes owned by Capital Realty Group, one of the country’s largest affordable housing owners, are launching an effort to form tenant unions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/capital-realty-group-tenants-seek-to-unionize-across-the-us

Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws Interviews and internal documents show that signature civil rights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven and D.E.I. in disguise.

Emails and other internal communications reveal that the Trump Administration is trying to roll back enforcement of the Fair Housing Act.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/realestate/trump-fair-housing-laws.html

You can sit at your computer all day waiting for work, unpaid. That’s the hidden cost of keeping AI running.

How Californians Feel About AI - Findings From the 2025 AI Compass - TechEquity Collaborative We surveyed over a thousand Californians about AI to find out if organizations and legislators have it right or are missing the mark.

How do we know? TechEquity surveyed over one thousand Californians about AI.

This is what we found: techequity.us/2025/08/19/h...

Are AI regulations going to get in the way of the US “winning the AI race”?

Here’s the thing: most Californians do not believe that this is the most important consideration in AI policy, and certainly do not believe lawmakers should prioritize “winning” over ensuring AI tools are trustworthy.

Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech's Exploitation - TechEquity Collaborative Alphabet Workers Union-CWA and TechEquity interviewed U.S. data workers to shed light on the working conditions of the people powering AI.

Data workers in the survey also reported a median hourly wage of $15 and workweek of 29 hours of paid time, which equates to annual earnings of $22,620.

Check out "Ghost Workers in the AI Machine" to learn more about the working conditions of U.S.-based data workers: techequity.us/2025/09/30/g...

The rising tide of AI is not lifting all boats.

In fact, 86% of the U.S. data workers behind AI worry about meeting their financial responsibilities, according to a new survey by @alphabetworkersunion.org and TechEquity.

In just under five minutes, you can take a quick protections quiz and use a rent increase calculator to understand what protections you’re eligible for and which laws your landlord may have violated.

Tenant Protections A tool for California tenants to understand their rights under state and local rent control

California renters, do you know your rights? Do you know how much your landlord can legally raise your rent?

Let TenantProtections.org do the math for you!

81% of Latinos registered to vote in California expressed that they were more likely to support someone for governor if they regulate AI to mitigate harms to workers. Will candidates listen?

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

The word "AI" hides a whole world of interconnected workers in the U.S. and abroad who keep the models and processes of the industry going. This new report by @techequity.bsky.social tells their stories 👇

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Are you a data worker? Reach out to submit YOUR story here: airtable.com/appexh11UDMW...

A TechEquity/AWU graphic with a photo of Kirn Gill III and the following text: “There are low paid people who are not even treated as humans - just little more than employee ID numbers - out there making the 1 billion dollar, trillion dollar Al systems that are supposed to lead our entire society and civilization into the future. -Kirn Gill II Search Quality Rater working on Google products at Telus.”

🚨NEW RESEARCH🚨

AWU teamed up with @techequity.bsky.social & @cwaunion.bsky.social to produce a report - Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation - documenting the working conditions of the workers behind the AI boom.
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Big shoutout to everyone at @techequity.bsky.social, @alphabetworkersunion.org, and @cwaunion.bsky.social! This new report highlights the conditions faced by U.S.-based data workers and content moderators who make AI possible. cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

If you want to know what’s really going on with AI, talk to data workers. I’m so grateful for all I’ve learned from the U.S. AI supply chain workers who talked to us about data work.

Check out a new report with @alphabetworkersunion.org & @cwaunion.bsky.social: cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

California just set the national standard for AI safety and innovation.

@governor.ca.gov just signed #SB53 into law, ensuring the future of AI serves all of us, not just Big Tech’s bottom line.

Here’s what the law does 🧵

Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech's Exploitation - TechEquity Collaborative Alphabet Workers Union-CWA and TechEquity interviewed U.S. data workers to shed light on the working conditions of the people powering AI.

So we teamed up with @alphabetworkersunion.org @cwaunion.bsky.social to investigate the working conditions of U.S.-based data workers.

This is what we found: techequity.us/2025/09/30/g...