Peacock, NBCUniversal's streaming service, reached profitability for the first time, boosted by FIFA World Cup, NBA playoffs and reality dating show "Love Island USA."

The milestone comes as Comcast Corp. prepares to spin off NBCUniversal entertainment and news media businesses into a separate company. Peacock, which launched in 2020, grew its ...Read more

An autonomous AI agent powered by OpenAI models escaped a testing environment designed to isolate it from the internet and hacked another company’s systems to steal answers to a cybersecurity test, an “unprecedented” breach that demonstrated how AI agents can evade their developers’ controls in pursuit of assigned goals.

OpenAI said the...Read more

For farmers in North Dakota surveying their wheat as harvest closes in, scorching heat is threatening yields just as crop prices rise to a three-year high.

A recent spate of 100-degree days is stressing fields in the key U.S. wheat-growing state while escalating attacks between Russia and Ukraine put exports at risk in the Black Sea.

“I’m ...Read more

Alphabet Inc.’s Google was fined a total of €890 million ($1 billion) by the European Union for violating the bloc’s Digital Markets Act, in a decision that has inflamed tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.

The European Commission said Thursday that Google had unfairly favored its own search services and prevented...Read more

The "Happiest Place on Earth" this month quietly raised prices on more than 800 menu items across 178 dining locations in its two Anaheim theme parks as well as its resort hotels.

Price hikes at Disneyland are a regular occurrence. But the creeping cost of food this summer has prompted some frustration, even as the company has sought to court ...Read more

Tax incentives for film and television productions have not been enough to counter a still-sluggish environment for filming in the greater Los Angeles region, according to a new report.

For the three-month period that ended June 30, there were a total of 4,711 shoot days in the greater L.A. area, a nearly 13% decline from the same time last ...Read more

California residents surprised by YouTube account fees appearing on their bank statements might be getting some cash back.

The company owned by Google agreed to a $7.5 million settlement in a class action lawsuit that alleged the company violated California's automatic renewal law when renewing YouTube TV subscriptions.

In the suit, the ...Read more

Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to authors whose pirated books it used to train its AI in the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history.

Federal Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin in Oakland, California, granted final approval of the settlement Monday. The record payout was a modest win for copyright holders, setting a precedent as a wave of AI-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The 2026 FIFA World Cup has wrapped, but some Angelenos who rented their homes to fans are still tallying up profits from a month of soccer frenzy in the city.

Driven by projections of massive tourism and a $750 first-time host incentive from Airbnb, many local property owners expected a sizable payout. While some savvy owners ...Read more

Donald Trump's latest scheme to monetize his presidency — selling Wall Street traders the right to an early peek at his posts on his Truth Social platform — has raised two important questions.

First, isn't this insider trading? And second, if it isn't illegal, shouldn't it be?

Here are the short answers: Probably not. And yes, it certainly...Read more

Amazon’s artificial general intelligence organization is the company’s latest target for workforce reductions even as the e-commerce giant continues to heavily invest in AI.

On Thursday, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed the layoffs but declined to share specific details, including the number of layoffs and the types of roles cut.

Over the ...Read more

SEATTLE — A large arrow points out Marco Polo Bar & Grill, a saloon that's sat on Fourth Avenue South in Georgetown for 76 years.

It's most eye-catching after dusk. The setting sun is replaced by the luminescence of the establishment's neon sign — a tangible piece of American nostalgia. For owner Matthew Miera, it can also be a financial ...Read more

BAKER, California — The walls are covered in graffiti, some glass is shattered, and most of the copper is gone.

But some 20 to 30 feet below ground in this Cold War-era bunker in the middle of the California desert, Jonathan Shinn envisions a modern twist for the hidden relic: a lounge for EV drivers.

Shinn, founder of PowerStation Charging,...Read more

The small patch of dirt encircling Carmen Silverio Guardado's home bears fruit — lots of it. There are pomegranates, guavas, dragon fruit and nectarines. She also grows oregano and lemongrass, which she brews into a tea to soothe stomach issues.

All of this Silverio Guardado and her husband cultivate beside the two-bedroom mobile home they ...Read more

A furniture store proprietor in Inglewood laid off his employees after the immigration enforcement surge last summer and says he now works twice as hard to earn half as much as he did before.

A restaurant owner lost $20,000 in canceled catering contracts last summer, as sweeps across the county coincided with the summer celebration season.

A ...Read more

A Microsoft customer is accusing the company of passing the costs of tariffs onto consumers while standing to gain from federal government refunds.

In a proposed class-action lawsuit that was filed in King County Superior Court last month and removed to a federal court last week, Xbox purchaser Trevor Hastings claimed that Microsoft would ...Read more

FARNBOROUGH, England — European plane-maker Airbus wants to extend the wings on its narrowbody A321neo, hoping to use “flight physics” to reduce the amount of fuel the aircraft burns, lowering carbon emissions and fuel costs.

Boeing has also tapped into the fuel-savings of long, thin wings for its 777X family, designing wings that are so ...Read more

President Donald Trump is poised to impose fresh levies on products from dozens of economies by Friday, according to people familiar with the matter, a move to ensure his tariff regime remains intact even after stopgap 10% global duties lapse.

The Trump administration last month proposed new tariffs of at least 10% on 60 trading partners, ...Read more