In another major blow to Meta, a New Mexico judge ordered the social media giant to pay $567 million and take actions to make its platform safer for young people.

The latest penalty is in addition to the $375 million that a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay after finding that the company violated state consumer protection laws for enabling ...Read more

A new program to provide incentives for people who are buying their first electric vehicle in California is up and running, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday.

The program, approved by lawmakers in Sacramento last month, is aimed at offsetting the loss of federal EV incentives that were eliminated last year by President Trump and Republicans in...Read more

QVC Group Inc. has replaced chief executive David Rawlinson, bringing back predecessor Mike George as interim boss as the West Chester-based remote-shopping pioneer comes out of bankruptcy and charts a future.

The company also has named new directors with long retail and digital experience, replacing those who oversaw the company under ...Read more

Meta wants its smart glasses to be a big hit, but the high-tech specs have also turned into a liability, as some are calling the gadget "pervert glasses."

The social media giant dominates the market for smart glasses, which allow people to capture photos and videos, listen to music, take phone calls and ask questions to an artificial ...Read more

In 2026, the BMW XM is the flagship SUV for consumers in the German market and the XM rises over the competition with grit, power and style.

Powered by a 4.4-liter twin-turbo 32-valve and integrated electric motor, this all-wheel drive hybrid is amazing, to say the least.

Offering 30 miles of pure electric range, the BMW XM boasts 577 ...Read more

U.S. employers unexpectedly cut jobs in July and hiring in the prior two months was revised lower, suggesting the labor market is weaker than previously thought after surprising strength earlier this year.

Nonfarm payrolls decreased 23,000 last month following a combined 103,000 downward revision to the May and June figures, Bureau of Labor ...Read more

A federal judge blasted KTLA-TV Channel 5's owner, the Texas-based Nexstar Media Group, on Thursday for violating a court order and for failing to disclose key information.

U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley found that Nexstar's actions violated terms of an April preliminary injunction that was designed to prevent the media company from moving ...Read more

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