TACOMA, Washington — Below the warm glow of string lights in their century-old apartment building, Bearett Hoffmann and his neighbors overwhelmingly voted to do something that may sound terrifying to many renters: voluntarily stop paying their utility bills.

By standing together, the renters hope they can pressure their landlord to change the...Read more

Hundreds of people gathered in Seattle this week to discuss the region’s future as a hub for artificial intelligence research and businesses, but disruptions by climate activists underscored the rising tension surrounding the technology.

During Seattle AI Week’s opening panel on Monday, demonstrators in the audience confronted Beau ...Read more

As California decides whether to slap billionaires with a special tax, the Golden State's swarm of social media stars is chiming in — and increasingly getting paid to influence voters.

Unlikely influencers, from foodies to mothers to retirees, are weighing in on Proposition 40, a one-time 5% tax on the assets of the state's roughly 200 ...Read more

Alphabet Inc.’s shares fell more than 13%, erasing more than $500 billion in its biggest-ever market plunge, after the company reported disappointing search and advertising sales that reinforced investor concerns about AI’s threat to its core business.

The Google parent reported sales, excluding partner payouts, of $111.2 billion for the ...Read more

California's struggling truckers say they need more aid to help ports reach their green goals.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, each with some of the country's most ambitious emissions targets, are considering additional incentives to help truckers switch to electric big rigs.

Even as record diesel prices have triggered a wave of ...Read more

Average San Diego County, California, rents in the last week of October increased more than they have in nearly three years.

They still weren’t up by much, though.

On an annual basis, San Diego County rent was up 1.2%, said real estate tracker CoStar, to an average $2,587 a month. It’s a small but notable change, following slowed rent ...Read more

Seattle landlords could soon have an easier path to challenging the city’s tenant protection laws.

Division One of the Washington State Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a lawsuit taking aim at city rental regulations could move forward, overturning a lower court decision that had sided with the city.

The case centers on an affordable ...Read more

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh on Wednesday left the central bank on track to raise interest rates again this year, even as he stuck to his refusal to offer any explicit guidance on the future path of policy.

Operating within his self-imposed communication boundaries, Warsh used his assessment of a strong economy and warnings over ...Read more

The U.S. placed an effective ban on imports from the Chinese genomics powerhouse BGI Group and two related entities, one of the most striking applications yet of a law seeking to block goods allegedly made by forced labor from entering the country.

The Department of Homeland Security added BGI Group, its publicly traded genomics-testing unit ...Read more

Boston Scientific is eliminating jobs as part of “a pretty meaningful restructuring,” the company’s CEO said Wednesday, as the medical device manufacturer lowered its sales forecast and saw its stock price drop further.

“Some employees impacted by the global restructuring plan have been notified this week,” the company said in a ...Read more

Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday, Oct. 28 increased the bottom-end of its annual financial guidance as it reported a $2 billion net income in the third quarter of 2026, a decrease of 17% year-over-year.

The Dearborn, Michigan, automaker is forecasting annual operating income of $10.5 billion to $11 billion, up from $10 billion to $11 billion and the...Read more

Microsoft smashed Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, with all eyes on the balance between the company’s artificial intelligence spending and revenue growth.

The Redmond-based tech giant reported $92.3 billion in revenue, a 19% year-over-year increase, for the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal year, which ran from July through September, ...Read more

Now is the sweet spot, after the elections and before the year-end holiday crunch, to do some financial planning and organization. This is the quiet time for accountants and financial advisors, so you can easily get their attention. And late fall weekends are the perfect time to do that since most of the exciting sports playoffs are behind us �...Read more

The latest round of belt-tightening across Hollywood has now reached the Happiest Place on Earth.

Walt Disney Co.'s theme parks division is laying off between 100 and 200 people, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly.

The cuts to Disney's experiences segment stem from a regular evaluation of ...Read more

Roku is a brand most of us know for streaming sticks and streaming boxes that turn any TV into a smart TV.

Roku also licenses its operating system to TV manufacturers, which means you could buy a TCL TV that runs the Roku operating system.

For the last few years, I have been aware of Roku-branded TVs, but I never really gave them much thought....Read more

San Diego biotech Artiva Biotherapeutics is laying off about 94% of its workforce and abandoning its lead immunotherapy treatment for rheumatoid arthritis roughly five months after raising about $300 million from investors.

The company said Tuesday that updated data showed its lead candidate, AlloNK — an off-the-shelf natural killer cell ...Read more

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's pay dropped in the company’s most recent fiscal year — all the way down to $90.6 million.

It marks a nearly $6 million slide in total compensation from a year earlier for Nadella, according to an Oct. 21 regulatory filing. But it’s still up from the cool $79.1 million he made the year before that.

The drop ...Read more

Anthropic, the big artificial intelligence lab, wants everyone to understand that it's deeply devoted to developing advanced AI "for the benefit of humanity."

We know this because it has placed this principle front-and-center in the preliminary prospectus for its upcoming initial public stock offering, which was made public on Monday. It's what...Read more

General Motors Co. will produce hybrids at its Lansing Delta Township Assembly plant near Michigan's capital, as it seeks to catch up in an electrified vehicle segment that has enjoyed strong growth this year amid rising gas prices.

The automaker declined to provide details on timing and models to be made at the plant, which now produces the ...Read more