Sheleko Maynard was riding on a bus, worried about the possibility of spending another year living alone outside in a tent when she got a call: She had been accepted into a tiny home community in Sacramento and could move in the next day.

That was about a year ago. The 75-square-foot dwelling gave her a heater, a bed to herself and a desk she ...Read more

New data on China’s relentless energy installations underscore warnings from Elon Musk and Jensen Huang that the nation’s world-beating power network will deliver a major advantage over the U.S. in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.

Since 2021, China has added more power capacity across all energy technologies than the U.S. has ...Read more

Will artificial intelligence put me out of a job?

That’s the lingering fear some employees in the gaming industry are contemplating as rapidly evolving technology is deployed in workplaces across the globe, including in casino environments.

On the surface, the use of data, algorithms and computational power simulating cognitive functions ...Read more

Not even a week into the new year, the Wall Street Journal was touting some ominous news.

"America is falling out of love with pizza," reads a Jan. 4 headline.

It's just not true — at least not in Metro Detroit — says local operators of pizza companies big and small. America may be less interested in huge national chains that favor ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he intended to stay out of the clash between Netflix Inc. and Paramount Skydance Corp. over Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., saying he would leave the matter to the U.S. Justice Department.

“I haven’t been involved,” Trump told NBC News in an interview. “I’ve been called by both sides. It’s the two sides, but...Read more

Target Corp.’s new chief executive officer, Michael Fiddelke, acknowledged in his first town hall that the big-box retailer has lost trust with shoppers and employees and pledged to rebuild that connection.

“We weren’t clear enough about who we are as a company,” Fiddelke told staff on Wednesday, according to a recording viewed by ...Read more

Pizza Hut is planning to close around 250 “underperforming” locations in the coming months, the chain’s parent company announced on Wednesday.

Yum Brands, which also owns Taco Bell and KFC, did not say which stores were being targeted or when the process would begin, but confirmed the closures would happen in the first half of 2026.

The ...Read more

General Motors Co. is strategizing for an inevitable economic downturn by paring down dealer inventory and maintaining a cash safety net, Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson said Wednesday.

Jacobson's comments to a panel of auto insiders at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank's Detroit branch provide insight into industry leaders' expectations ...Read more

The Washington Post announced widespread layoffs on Wednesday, affecting multiple parts of the newsroom, the latest round off job losses at the nearly 150-year-old newspaper.

The paper’s staff was instructed to “stay home today” and told during a morning virtual meeting about “significant actions,” including shutting down almost the ...Read more

Julian Ocampo’s family opened their first Mexican-American restaurant in Minneapolis in 2003, following it up over the years with a chain of Los Ocampo restaurants and bars, or sister eateries, including Mr. Taco in Maplewood and Machete Cocina Mexicana in Woodbury.

With customers and workers alike fearful of being detained by federal ...Read more

Apollo Global Management’s John Zito left the audience of investors stunned.

Addressing a gathering in Toronto last fall, he said that the real threat for private capital markets wasn’t tariffs, inflation or a prolonged period of elevated interest rates. Rather, he said, “the real risk is — is software dead?”

Zito’s comments, being...Read more

My wife is quite happy for me to be the gadget hound in our family.

She’s a reluctant adopter of technology, but she’s quite happy when I introduce her to something she really loves.

Every so often she’ll stake a claim on something I’m reviewing after she sees me trying it out, which was exactly the case of my unboxing the Gyroor ...Read more

After two decades and two stints as Walt Disney Co. boss, Bob Iger finally is hanging up the reins.

Disney this week tapped 54-year-old parks chief Josh D'Amaro to succeed Iger as chief executive. The handoff is set for March 18, at the company's annual investor meeting, with Iger staying on as a senior advisor and board member until his ...Read more

India’s aviation regulator said Tuesday it found no problems with an Air India Boeing 787 plane grounded the day before following a concern with the same fuel control switches tied to a deadly June crash.

India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation said in a statement Tuesday that the switches – two toggles that pilots use to control the ...Read more

Netflix Inc. and Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. faced a skeptical Senate panel Tuesday as their executives defended their $82.7 billion media merger against lawmakers’ concerns about the proposed tie-up and its impact on streaming consumers and Hollywood workers.

“We will give consumers more content for less,” Netflix co-Chief Executive ...Read more

Once again, artificial intelligence is dominating investors’ attention in the stock market. These days, however, the focus is turning more and more toward companies that may get disrupted by the new technology rather than those who stand to profit from it.

A Goldman Sachs basket of U.S. software stocks sank 6% on Tuesday, its biggest one-day...Read more

Two years ago, the United Auto Workers launched an ambitious campaign to organize transplant auto factories in the South, planning to use the record contracts it had just achieved with the Detroit Three automakers to add up to 150,000 members to its ranks.

The Detroit union quickly collected worker signatures across several plants, and by April...Read more

Target officially has a new CEO.

Michael Fiddelke, who was named to the role in August, took over Sunday as Target Corp.’s fourth-ever chief executive. He succeeds longtime CEO Brian Cornell amid shaky financial performance and unrest in the company’s hometown.

Already, Fiddelke has been leading many of the company’s turnaround efforts. ...Read more