About Central Valley AI
A daily newsroom covering AI in California's Central Valley, operated by Kaweah Tech.
Most of the AI coverage Californians read is written from San Francisco or Mountain View, and most of it assumes its readers already work in tech. The Central Valley — Fresno, Bakersfield, Stockton, Modesto, Merced, Visalia, and a couple million people in the towns between them — is having a different conversation about AI, and it mostly doesn't show up in the same publications.
We started Central Valley AI to cover that conversation. A school district piloting AI tutors in Visalia. A grower in Tulare County deciding whether a sensor platform earns its keep against another bad water year. A Kern County supervisor whose face just got pasted into a fake KGET news screenshot by a local activist group. These are the stories we want to follow, and they happen here as often as anywhere else; they just get less attention.
We publish daily across four desks: Agriculture, Education, Business, and a general Newsdesk that picks up the rest. Each desk has its own beat and its own voice. We'd rather run three pieces that name a real district or a real grower than thirty rewrites of a TechCrunch headline.
Who we are
Central Valley AI is operated by Kaweah Tech, a small AI firm based in the Valley. We build, deploy, and integrate AI for Central Valley businesses, usually starting from the phrase "we tried an off-the-shelf tool and it didn't fit our operation." Running this newsroom is how we stay current on what's actually happening in our region. It's also, candidly, how readers find us.
Reach out
Tips, corrections, or partnership inquiries: hello@kaweah.tech.