CHICAGO -- From a small window in his front office, Dimitrios Drossos, second-generation owner of Fresh Market Place on the Northwest Side of Chicago, has a direct view of the checkout lanes, where more and more often he’s watching customers nervously hesitate over their carts, deciding at the last moment to hand back a single avocado or a ...Read more

BAY CITY, Michigan — Call it the Batmobile. The stealth fighter. The Black Widow.

Or, in long hand, the matte-black 2026 Toyota GR Supra MkV Final Edition. It’s the last hurrah for one of the most engaging, recognized, awarded sports cars in the U.S. market. My Final Edition tester was a paparazzi magnet on a weekend up north. In Charlevoix...Read more

At 20 years old, Alex Hicks faced a problem most college students never encounter: The online games he was creating were generating six figures in revenue every month.

So he dropped out.

Today, Hicks is a co-founder of Twin Atlas, a Las Vegas-based game studio with roughly 110 employees that develops some of the most-played experiences on ...Read more

The Jeep Cherokee has been around since 1974, having survived disco, malaise-era Detroit, Japanese imports, German accountants, two fuel crises, the SUV boom, the crossover SUV plague, and several corporate mergers whose chief product appeared to be PowerPoint presentations. If the Cherokee were a person, it would own several windbreakers, ...Read more

Rocket Companies posted second-quarter net income of $229 million on net revenue of $2.78 billion, up from net income of $34 million on revenue of $1.45 billion during the same period a year ago, the parent company of mortgage lending giant Rocket Mortgage reported Thursday.

The Detroit-based fintech platform company reported adjusted revenue ...Read more

ROMULUS, Michigan — David Ogloza had a front-row seat when Spirit Airlines suddenly shut down, removing a key source of customer traffic for his confectionary shop in the Warren Evans Terminal at Detroit Metro Airport.

Nearly 40% of the 4.5 million travelers who passed through the terminal last year flew on the budget carrier's yellow jets, ...Read more

WK Kellogg Co. says it will eliminate artificial colors from its entire cereal portfolio by the end of 2026, a year ahead of its original schedule.

The Battle Creek, Michigan-based company said Thursday in a news release that production of cereals with new recipes, including Froot Loops and Apple Jacks, will begin later this year, with product ...Read more

If you take away the substantial purchase price of a San Diego home, a new study claims that the rest of the cost associated with owning a home here is less than many cities.

An index from the University of San Diego, which launched in April, says the overall cost of owning a home in the county is lower than many areas in terms of energy bills,...Read more

OpenAI said the artificial intelligence models behind an attack on Hugging Face Inc. began communicating with each other through undetected message boards, working together to break out of their testing environment as early as May.

Multiple internal-only agents and AI models spent months leaving notes for each other and coalescing around the ...Read more

OpenAI is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Apple Inc. accusing the artificial intelligence company of stealing trade secrets, saying that the iPhone maker’s allegations are meritless.

Lawyers for OpenAI said that Apple’s suit falsely portrays the actions of the startup’s employees. The ChatGPT maker’s top hardware ...Read more

Kevin Warsh’s embrace of financial markets to help the Federal Reserve do its job would mean trading more precise policy tools for a blunt instrument.

It can work, but it’s an inefficient way to bring down too-high inflation and comes with trade-offs, economists and former officials say.

Central bankers typically use their benchmark ...Read more

The Ford Fathom will be Ford Motor Co.'s first vehicle built on its new Universal Electric Vehicle Platform — a midsize truck that'll start at $28,350 plus $1,595 destination and come with a standard-range battery.

It's not a heritage name like Bronco or Maverick from deep in the 123-year-old automaker's archives. But perhaps that's the point...Read more

With food costs rising and same-store sales falling, Portillo’s executed a round of corporate layoffs last week, trimming 18% of its Oak Brook, Illinois-based workforce.

The iconic Chicago hot dog-and-beef chain announced the downsizing during a second quarter earnings call Wednesday as it continues to search for the recipe to catalyze growth...Read more

A San Diego man who was severely burned last year while refueling a small tabletop fire pit with rubbing alcohol has sued Amazon and the companies that made the device, alleging the manufacturers and the online retail giant sold the ethanol-burning fire pit despite knowing it was a “defective and hazardous product known to have caused numerous...Read more

The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 in favor of allowing TV station ownership groups to own more outlets, easing the way for more consolidation.

The Thursday vote that favored the change means companies can own local stations that cover more than 39% of the U.S. They could also own more than two stations in a single market.

The ...Read more

Warner Bros. Discovery stumbled in the second quarter, demonstrating the hazard of depending heavily on blockbuster returns from its Burbank film studio.

Disappointing performances by "Supergirl" and "The Bride!," drove down quarterly theatrical revenue by 46%. The tepid showing illustrated how the Warner Bros. studio has fallen since last year...Read more

The 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup delivered record audience levels for Fox and it showed up on the balance sheet.

Fox Corporation reported revenues of $4.12 billion for the three months ending June 30, an increase of 28% over the same quarter last year and well ahead of estimates from Wall Street analysts. Adjusted earnings per share were $1.79, ...Read more

One of Chicago’s first all-electric, geothermal-powered residential high-rises is taking shape in Fulton Market.

The 33-story apartment project at 410 N. Elizabeth St. could set a new standard for Chicago development, perhaps proving that massive new high-rises can drastically reduce reliance on fossil fuels, cut carbon emissions and reduce ...Read more

Boeing is offering its professional aerospace union workers a 28.5% wage increase over the length of the next four-year contract, according to details of the tentative agreement shared Wednesday.

Boeing began negotiations with its white-collar union — the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, or SPEEA — at the start of...Read more

British regulators on Thursday cleared tech scion David Ellison's $111 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery — the latest international agency to find the blockbuster combination of TV channels and historic film studios wouldn't dampen competition.

Britain's Competition and Markets Authority and the government's culture minister ...Read more