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"...According to a recent update, price growth today is less than a third of what it was during the worst of the inflation crisis. The Federal Reserve has started to lower interest rates, signaling confidence that price stability and labor market strength are coming into balance."

During the California Forward?Economic Summit this week, #CAWomenLeaders?including CalChamber President and CEO Jennifer Barrera?and Calif. Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry?showcased the critical role women play in advancing a sustainable, equitable, and prosperous future. Thank you to the California Resources Corporation?for hosting the Women Driving Transition event!

"Governor Gavin Newsom recently vetoed an Assembly bill opposed by the California Chamber of Commerce that would have harmed access to health care by cutting off needed private funding for health care providers."

Final Status Report Shows Major Battles for Business, Governor Signs CalChamber-Sponsored Bill to Teach AI Literacy in School, CalChamber Positions on November 2024 Ballot, CalChamber Final Status Report on Major Legislation for Business, Parties Suspend, East Coast/Gulf Ports Strike with Contract Extension to January 2025 #Legislation #Bills #BillStatus #AI #AILiteracy #2024Ballot #Ballot #StatusReport #Business #PortsStrike https://lnkd.in/eaDD25V

Congratulations?to Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper who have been recognized with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?for their groundbreaking work with AlphaFold 2. The AlphaFold 2 AI model?predicted the structures for nearly all known proteins, a fundamental building block of life, transforming a process that would have taken researchers years for each protein into something that takes minutes. Google Deepmind made AlphaFold publicly available and it’s been used by more than 2 million researchers globally, accelerating scientific discovery in areas like vaccines and cancer treatments.? ? This underscores how critical it is to ensure that leading AI researchers and developers feel comfortable innovating and sharing their models in order for their work to be implemented in ways that benefit humanity.? #NobelPrize #Chemistry #AlphaFold #AI https://lnkd.in/gyMUqMpY

It’s the final day to connect with us at the Los Angeles Business Show! Enter for a chance to win a free one-year Enterprise membership and see how CalChamber can simplify your HR needs. Let us know if you get to meet Rick in the comments below!

"As the California Law Revision Commission (CLRC) meets today for another deep dive on competition issues, a?newly-released report?has found that California’s motion picture and television industry (aka the “audiovisual industry”) is robustly competitive. Prepared by Compass Lexecon at the behest of the Motion Picture Association, the findings repudiate a CLRC Working Group’s conclusion that the audiovisual sector is implicitly uncompetitive because it is “overly concentrated.”"

"On Monday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that the California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA) is being awarded $10 million to support small business growth through the federal?State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) Investing in America Small Business Opportunity Program (SBOP)."

This National Work/Life Week, simplify your HR compliance. As a CalChamber member, you’ll have access to resources that will help support a healthy work-life balance for you & your team. Learn more about our membership options at https://bit.ly/3W3ttfY.