Meta’s sweeping layoffs announced last month hit 1,395 employees in King County, per a recent state filing last week.

While Meta is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., the company maintains a significant presence in the Seattle area. Meta’s Puget Sound hub grew rapidly during the pandemic — reaching a local head count of 8,800 employees ...Read more

U.S. tariffs pushed by President Donald Trump and supply-chain disruptions are eroding Mexico’s gains as a manufacturing hub, raising the risk that the country slips back into exporting lower-value goods that create few jobs or investment opportunities.

On the surface, Mexico’s exports are still breaking records, giving President Claudia ...Read more

PHILADEPHIA -- Matthew Soesanto wrapped up his undergraduate biology degree at Drexel University in March and spent weeks applying to research, coding, and pharmaceutical industry jobs this spring. But he wasn’t hearing back from hiring managers.

“It just feels like I’m sending applications to a black hole,” said Soesanto, who will walk...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- It’s still the earliest days of artificial intelligence usage and understanding, yet AI companies are gobbling capital like a hippo’s maw and soaring in market valuation.

Everyone in business these days seems to be searching for a tale from history to meaningfully describe the growing importance of AI. I personally think it ...Read more

San Diego home prices continue to show gains, but any increase has been blunted by rising inflation, data released Tuesday shows

The San Diego metropolitan area’s home price increased 0.78% annually in March, said the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Indices report. At the same time, San Diego metro, which includes all of San Diego County, had an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Is Paramount making a Tony Soprano move?

David Ellison's media company appears to be girding for a big battle with California Attorney General Rob Bonta and fellow state attorneys general who may team up to file a lawsuit aiming to block Paramount's proposed $111-billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Last week, Paramount ...Read more

Eli Lilly & Co. is on a record spending spree, announcing acquisitions worth more than $20 billion so far in 2026 as the drugmaker expands beyond its blockbuster obesity franchise.

In recent weeks, Lilly has pledged to shell out up to $7.8 billion for sleep drugmaker Centessa Pharmaceuticals Plc and up to $7 billion for cancer drug developer ...Read more

Blue Origin’s massive manufacturing site in Brevard County is primed to expand with a new $600 million facility to speed up New Glenn rocket production, the governor’s office announced Friday.

The investment, dubbed “Project Horizon,” would bring an 830,000-square foot building dedicated to constructing more of New Glenn’s upper stage...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Advocacy coalition EyesOnOpenAI is asking Attorney General Rob Bonta to investigate a recent contract between OpenAI and semiconductor company Cerebras Systems that the group says bolsters its earlier arguments that OpenAI has abandoned its philanthropic mission.

EyesOnOpenAI, a coalition of AI-skeptical groups, previously...Read more

DETROIT -- For about 25 years, the Dodge Viper stood at the pinnacle of the brand's lineup as a ridiculous V-10-powered muscle car fused with sleek sports car styling.

Now, the brand is planning to bring back something similar with a "hyper muscle car" called the Copperhead SRT. Stellantis NV executives briefly showed a mock-up of the car to ...Read more

Cargill’s new chocolate alternative, which avoids cocoa markets that sent the price of candy on a rollercoaster ride in recent years, just tastes chocolaty.

Kernels of the grape-seed-derived product called NextCoa, shown off in one of Cargill’s Minnesota corporate kitchens on a recent Friday, elevated fresh-baked cookies to taste like they ...Read more

For years, vacant homes in large U.S. cities have conjured up images of derelict, abandoned properties in need of loving attention and a full-time resident. In San Diego, a June ballot measure is taking aim at a very different kind of vacant dwelling by proposing to heavily tax second homes — from the coast to the suburbs — that all share ...Read more

Carl’s Jr. began in 1941 as a hot dog cart on the corner of Florence and Central in Los Angeles and grew into one of the region’s best-known burger chains. Eight decades later, the now-global chain is struggling in its old neighborhood.

The high costs of doing business in California, festering labor issues, fierce competition and crime have...Read more

Hotel rooms in Los Angeles and other FIFA World Cup host cities could sit empty, despite high expectations that the global sporting event would be a boon to the city.

The soccer tournament, which has sold more than 5 million tickets so far, has historically triggered a surge of international and domestic tourism and infused host cities with an...Read more

SPRINGFIELD — When federal immigration officers flooded Chicago neighborhoods last fall, walk-ins at Erick Camargo’s hair salon in Chicago plunged from about 40 customers per day to as few as five.

At the height of Operation Midway Blitz, Camargo locked the doors during business hours to keep agents from entering. Some barbers worked out of...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Waymo said it's pausing its robotaxi services on freeways in the U.S. as it updates its software to improve performance around construction zones and flooded roads.

Before the suspension, freeway operations were available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Miami. The company said that street and other off-highway ...Read more

NEW YORK — As a radio professional who grew up aspiring to work at CBS News Radio, anchor Steve Kathan understood the weight of the words he wrote and recorded Friday on the final broadcast of "World News Roundup."

"America's longest running newscast signs off for the last time," Kathan said in the small dimly lighted studio in the CBS ...Read more