It’s May 1969 at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. Company leaders are gathered to drive proposals for efficient commuter cars, including the 512 Electric — a microcar with removable canopy and lead acid batteries that goes 58 miles … at 25 mph.

Three decades later, GM introduced the Impact concept that became the ...Read more

A woman repeatedly raped as a child by a man who put photos and videos of the crimes online claims in a lawsuit that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI allowed imagery of her abuse onto its X social media platform, and that the company’s Grok chatbot generated additional child pornography from the images.

The woman, identified as ...Read more

Worried about all the demand from artificial intelligence making power too expensive? The Port of Long Beach has an answer: little, floating nuclear power plants.

America's second largest port and its partner are trying to tap into the energy that powers nuclear submarines and build power plants on barges.

The idea is to develop the technology...Read more

Over the last five years, efforts to make social networks Facebook and Instagram safer for young people have erupted across courts, classrooms and capitals.

Now Meta Platforms, the parent company of the world’s most popular social networks, faces another big moment of reckoning.

On Wednesday, Meta agreed to pay up to $17 billion over 10 ...Read more

A fight over who bears responsibility for the people delivering Amazon packages to doorsteps is once again erupting — this time in New York City.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has voiced his public support for a bill that would require Amazon and other companies to directly employ, rather than subcontract, delivery workers.

“It's time...Read more

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh warned inflation isn’t meaningfully slowing and said policymakers must be confident that it is, otherwise the central bank has “work to do.”

In a sweeping speech, his first since becoming chairman of the central bank in May, Warsh reiterated that policymakers will return inflation to their 2% goal, ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he plans to authorize farmers and ranchers to process their own food in the administration’s latest bid to lower the price of beef ahead of the U.S. midterm elections in November.

Trump posted Friday on social media that he would direct legal documents to be drawn up in order to “break this powerful monopoly” ...Read more

California will start regulating tires in the coming years, which some manufacturers and industry groups say will increase costs to consumers — something supporters say will do the opposite.

The California Energy Commission recently approved the nation’s first efficiency standard for replacement tires for passenger vehicles and light-duty ...Read more

There is an arms race underway in the automotive industry.

Blackened chrome, LED strips, giant grilles, screens the size of suburban kitchen islands, illuminated logos, animated turn signals, ambient lighting in 35 colors and enough electronic wizardry to make the average pickup truck feel less like transportation and more like a Las Vegas ...Read more

Wrapped in Woolstone Green, the Land Rover Defender 110 is a seven-seat gem that blends everyday utility, off-road chops and luxury.

As Jaguar and Land Rover have joined hands recently to create JLR, the level of detail has increased nicely across the fleet. Our week-long tester had great boxy aesthetics on the exterior and a nicely apportioned...Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In one of the most extraordinary events in America’s year-long celebration of its 250th birthday, the Freedom 250 Grand Prix brought IndyCars to the nation’s capital Sunday, August 23 to race around the National Mall. Organized by American racing legend Roger Penske, the event was wrapped in a red-white-and-blue who’s-...Read more

It’s one of the busiest freight corridors in the United States, and it’s getting cleaner.

In the latest in the global effort to clean up heavy-duty freight, representatives from three countries gathered Wednesday at the Port of Long Beach to launch the British Columbia to Baja California Zero Emissions Vehicle corridor, or BC2BC, which, ...Read more

U.S. consumers are increasingly expressing opposition to data center developments across the country, raising questions about whether that pushback could extend to automakers in the stationary battery energy storage business that supplies data centers.

From Saline Township to Washington Township in Michigan and across the country, some ...Read more

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has been investigating whether Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube violated consumer protection laws when it suspended the accounts of users, according to people familiar with the probe.

The antitrust and consumer protection agency has been probing YouTube since last year and is in the final stages of preparing a ...Read more

Insurance company executives warned Gov. Gavin Newsom in a letter Wednesday that his plan to shift utility wildfire liability to property insurers would raise premiums across California.

"The party whose equipment ignites a catastrophic fire should bear the economic consequence of that fire," the 15 executives wrote. "Shifting those costs to ...Read more

Amazon announced Tuesday it will shutter Mechanical Turk, the 21-year-old crowdsourced labor market platform founder Jeff Bezos once called “artificial artificial intelligence.”

The rising use of AI could have delivered the fatal blow.

The Seattle-based e-commerce giant launched Mechanical Turk, which users commonly call MTurk, in 2005. ...Read more

Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez spent years in Southern California cutting and polishing slabs of crushed quartz manufactured by Minnesota’s Cambria and several other companies, fashioning the stone into popular and affordable kitchen and bathroom countertops.

Cutting the stone, he said through a translator, produced clouds of dust in the Southern ...Read more

Computer sales drove much of Best Buy’s revenue growth this summer, but it was because of higher prices, not because more were sold.

The cause of inflation in this case: data centers.

Companies are shifting memory chip production toward more lucrative data center products to meet demand from the artificial intelligence boom, tightening ...Read more

For much of the last year, Alphabet Inc. has been the Big Tech stock to beat as investors bet that it was the most-likely winner from the artificial intelligence boom.

Alphabet shares hit an all-time high on May 13 after soaring more than 150% in the previous 12 months, putting them among the 25 best performers in the S&P 500 Index over that ...Read more

Former employees of Stellantis NV's shuttered Belvidere Assembly Plant know by now not to get their hopes up.

The automaker announced earlier this month that it plans to reopen and build a new version of the Jeep Cherokee at the northern Illinois plant starting in late 2029. That's roughly two years after production of a midsize pickup ...Read more