A Manhattan judge overseeing a major copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI received dueling summary judgment motions Friday, with news organizations including the Daily News and The New York Times calling on the court to reject a key pillar of the tech behemoths’ defense to the claim that they are pirating original ...Read more

PayPal, the digital payments company, is laying off 251 employees at its San José headquarters in another round of layoffs, according to a recent government filing.

The cuts are a part of a multiyear restructuring plan led by CEO Enrique Lores to turn around the company's performance and cut costs while investing more in AI integration.

The ...Read more

Beachgoers may be the big winners in a high-profile dispute between the California Coastal Commission and Mark Attanasio, the billionaire businessman who owns the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team.

In 2024, Attanasio's construction team was accused of using excavators to dig up sand from Broad Beach and carry it back to his property as part of a ...Read more

Labor union membership continues to climb in the United States, though the increase remains sharply divided by the politics of individual states.

Last year, the nation added more than 411,000 union members — the largest annual growth since 2008, according to a study published just ahead of the Labor Day holiday by the Illinois Economic Policy...Read more

Tesla's robotaxi services may have hit a roadblock following the highly-anticipated launch of the Cybercab.

The electric vehicle company deployed its first Cybercabs in Austin, Texas, on Thursday night, prompting federal regulators to investigate whether the vehicle was properly certified.

The gold-colored, two-door vehicle was first unveiled ...Read more

The 2026 Lincoln Navigator Black Label is what happens when America decides it wants a Lincoln Town Car but is no longer willing to admit that it wants a Lincoln Town Car.

The Town Car was honest about its mission. It was a big, comfortable sedan for people who had acquired the social standing necessary to stop worrying about how much gasoline...Read more

California’s transition to electric vehicles is still underway, with more chargers for cars and trucks, more models to choose from and more ambitious sales targets. But it is increasingly shaped by what’s happening on the other side of the country, in Washington, where the federal government is working to slow the transition to EVs and ...Read more

A surprise jump in U.S. hiring last month has bolstered the case for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates when they meet later this month, but a hike is still not guaranteed.

Nonfarm payrolls in August topped all estimates in a Bloomberg survey, and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%. The latest report didn’t suggest the labor ...Read more

Tesla Inc. shares tumbled the most in six weeks after a formal rollout of the Cybercab driverless car left investors underwhelmed and drew fresh scrutiny from U.S. auto regulators.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday opened a probe into the process and technical data Tesla relied on when the company self-certified the ...Read more

SAN JOSE, California — The number of tech industry job cuts in the Bay Area has already topped the number for all of 2025, totals that are exacerbated by fresh downsizing disclosures by PayPal, Amazon and Synopsys.

Through the start of September, tech companies have revealed their decisions to eliminate 12,947 jobs in the Bay Area, this news...Read more

Apple Inc. has spent much of the past 15 years refining existing product lines and launching services to generate more recurring revenue. There have been a few fresh device categories, like the Apple Watch and AirPods, but no steady stream of new concepts.

That is all about to change, beginning next week at the company’s Sept. 9 “Surprise ...Read more

HELL, Michigan — How much is Frederic Edwin Church’s “Cotopaxi” oil painting at the Detroit Institute of the Arts? Priceless. How much is the 2026 Aston Martin Vantage S Roadster in my driveway? Out of reach for most.

But, like Church's painting, we are drawn to Aston’s masterpiece because it is a work of art. The pinnacle of its ...Read more

Coinbase Global Inc. is taking the first regulatory step toward letting U.S. investors make leveraged, round-the-clock bets on stocks without owning them, seeking to bring one of crypto’s most popular forms of trading onshore.

The push is part of a broader effort to bring the crypto trading playbook onshore just as digital-asset venues are ...Read more

The court-appointed United Auto Workers monitor this week issued a cease-and-desist order against Region 2B Director Dave Green over an election rule violation.

The monitor, attorney Neil Barofsky of Jenner & Block LLP, found that leadership in the region, which covers Ohio and Indiana, pressured staff to remain neutral in the UAW's fall ...Read more

Navigating liquidity issues, a showdown with Chicago over video gambling terminals and a dispute with contractors at its $1.7 billion casino construction site, Bally’s is facing a new challenge: replacing its chief financial officer.

Bally’s announced the departure Thursday of Mira Mircheva, who is stepping down as CFO effective immediately...Read more

In Indian Creek Village, money can buy you a $100 million mansion, a sprawling waterfront compound and a front-row seat to one of the most exclusive enclaves in South Florida.

But you still have to follow the rules created when the village first incorporated in 1939.

Welcome to Billionaire Bunker, where some of the world’s richest people ...Read more

After 205 years, the Saturday Evening Post, the famed magazine that printed its first issues on Ben Franklin’s Old City printing press and whose Norman Rockwell covers defined the optics of quintessential 20th-century Americana, will print its last issue early next year.

Subscribers received a letter in the September issue, which arrives in ...Read more

Nvidia Corp. agreed to acquire artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face in a transaction valued at about $13 billion, adding a popular software platform to the chip giant’s AI empire.

The price includes an equity-based retention program of as much as $1 billion for Hugging Face employees who join Nvidia, according to a statement Thursday...Read more

A coalition of major automakers urged U.S. lawmakers to permanently ban Chinese vehicles, citing the threats they pose to domestic economic and national security interests.

In a letter to Democratic and Republican leadership of both the House of Representatives and Senate, the head of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation said lawmakers should...Read more