Meet Mike Davis.

He’s middle-aged, has jet-black hair, and technically works at Expedia Group. “He’s kind of a legend at our company,” said Beth Potter, Expedia’s senior manager of field enablement.

But Mike Davis isn’t a person. He’s an AI agent built by Seismic, a San Diego company that recently showcased him along with a ...Read more

SEATTLE — The driver behind the wheel of a Range Rover whipped his vehicle around the construction site, kicking up dust before parking next to Caterpillar heavy machinery.

On a pile of dirt, a row of golden shovels waited, as attendees of the ground-breaking for Terminal One Motor and Yacht Club milled around the gravel lot, champagne flutes...Read more

When Brian Lee, the co-founder of The Honest Company with actress Jessica Alba and a serial entrepreneur, moved his family last year from Los Angeles to Summerlin, an upscale housing development in Las Vegas, he had a lot of things on his mind.

“I’d lived there pretty much my entire life, and L.A. is just not what it used to be,” he said ...Read more

A shareholder is suing Roblox, alleging company leaders misled investors about the potential negative effects of age verification checks on platform growth.

The lawsuit names nine current and former officers and directors of Roblox Corp., including co-founder and CEO David Baszucki. It alleges the company misled shareholders about the potential...Read more

Netflix and eBay both revealed plans to slash hundreds of Bay Area jobs, adding to the thousands of regional layoffs already announced this year by tech companies.

eBay eliminated 229 positions on Oct. 21 at its 2025 Hamilton Ave. headquarters in the Willow Glen district of San Jose, according to a WARN notice filed with the state Employment ...Read more

Meta's Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has wielded enormous power over the social media empire he built more than two decades ago, leading the California juggernaut through major scandals, scrutiny and technological shifts.

But the 42-year-old tech mogul considered leaving the state because he feared that a ballot measure to impose a one-time 5...Read more

Within the span of a few hours on Wednesday, Westinghouse Electric Co. announced a $1 billion new nuclear fuel factory in South Carolina, was named as the technology of choice in a proposal for a mammoth nuclear campus in Kentucky, and hosted the Under Secretary of Energy at its Etna innovation center.

The latest announcements came days after ...Read more

The Treasury Department on Thursday proposed new regulations to bar large institutional investors from buying up single-family homes, the latest step in the process to implement the most controversial section of the sweeping bipartisan housing law passed this summer.

Under the law, the ban — which prohibits investors with more than 350 ...Read more

The Crowbar nightclub of Tampa, Florida, never looked like much outside: a squat building with painted-over windows in a neighborhood where feral chickens roam brick streets.

Inside was where the magic happened. For 20 years, Crowbar’s single, 300-person room served as a place to hear unknown artists before they broke or popular acts ...Read more

A Seattle-based Amazon employee is suing the company, claiming it tried to silence her after she alleged that a senior manager raped her in 2023.

Laura Danbom, who joined the company in 2017 and is still working there, told The Seattle Times that after the assault during a work trip in New York City, she alerted Amazon’s human resources ...Read more

One company makes electric cars that are inherently terrestrial, ferrying millions of drivers on roads around the world. The other shoots rockets into space and has aspirations to make it to Mars. At first glance, they would seem like an odd pairing.

Yet, this week Elon Musk said that aerospace firm SpaceX and EV carmaker Tesla— two ...Read more

One of Hollywood's legendary music recording studios is for sale as its owner prepares to end his half-century run immortalizing many of the biggest acts.

The list of household names who have recorded at Conway Recording Studios spans generations and genres. Burt Bacharach, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Wonder, U2, Guns N' Roses, Daft Punk, Taylor ...Read more

To buydown or not to buydown? That’s become a pressing question for Las Vegas Valley home sellers as mortgage rates remain elevated and buyers struggle with affordability.

With 30-year mortgage rates hovering above 7 percent since September, home sellers are increasingly being asked to help buyers lower their monthly payments through mortgage...Read more

Comcast Corp. is planning a significant number of job cuts as part of an overall restructuring of its cable-TV, broadband and wireless businesses, according to people familiar with the company’s thinking.

The reorganization is designed to put Comcast in a stronger position to operate as an independent company after it spins off the ...Read more

You don’t have to tip that street performer, says Clark County, Nevada.

Digital marquees on the Las Vegas Strip have a new message: “When watching a performance or taking a photo, tipping is not required.”

The signs from Clark County are being put up for “public safety,” said a representative from the county.

Clark County ...Read more

Jeep maker Stellantis NV has halted production at its Wrangler plant in Toledo, Ohio, because of a hazardous material release.

The Toledo Fire & Rescue Department on Tuesday evening, Oct. 20 issued an immediate evacuation order for a 1-mile radius around MC Tank Terminal, a bulk liquid chemical storage and transport facility at 1266 Progress ...Read more

If low-cost, tech-heavy Chinese vehicles enter the United States, legacy automaker General Motors Co. is ready, a top executive told The Detroit News.

"Candidly, from a speed-of-innovation perspective, we've got our process there," GM Senior Vice President of Vehicle Products Jaclyn McQuaid said Wednesday, Oct. 21, when asked about a head-to-...Read more

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was ordered by a New Mexico judge on Wednesday to pay $25 billion for misleading users about how it collects and safeguards user data.

The penalty, one of the largest ever levied against Meta or any other company, is the latest legal hit to the social media giant, which has grappled with lawsuits over ...Read more

Meta Platforms Inc. was ordered to pay a groundbreaking $25 billion civil penalty to the state of New Mexico in a consumer deception case spurred by the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The fine issued Wednesday by state court Judge Francis Mathew is among the largest verdicts ever issued in U.S. legal history.

The award comes after a jury in ...Read more