With millions of eyes around the world focused on Pittsburgh next week, the local tech community is determined to promote a new identity for the Steel City — as an artificial intelligence innovation hub.

“You have all kinds of organizations doing great things, cleaning up the city, rolling out the red carpet, and this event is going to push...Read more

A federal judge has asked a company being sued by United Wholesale Mortgage whether the Pontiac, Michigan-based mortgage lender should be held in contempt of court for not complying with an order to have CEO Mat Ishbia participate in a deposition.

Such a request by a judge is uncommon, according to lawyers familiar with the U.S. Eastern ...Read more

For 55 years, the family behind Tapatío has refused to even write down the recipe for Los Angeles' iconic hot sauce, passing its secret formula for success only from lip to ear in closed rooms.

The Saavedra family put the ingredients on paper for the first time earlier this year as they sold the beloved brand to backers who plan to make their ...Read more

In January 2020, months before the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police ignited a national movement toward corporate diversity and inclusion programs, two Black McDonald’s executives filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the fast-food giant.

This fall, after more than six years of navigating the federal judicial ...Read more

Hours after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at his San Francisco home, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman addressed the criticism surrounding artificial intelligence that appears to have been the impetus for the attack.

In a lengthy blog post, Altman shared a family photo of his husband and child, stating he hopes it might convince people not to ...Read more

Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has raised $650 million to fund its effort to bring a mid-$20,000 electric pickup truck to the U.S. market by year-end.

TWG Global, headed by Guggenheim Partners founder Mark Walter and financier Thomas Tull, led the Series C funding, Slate said. A spokesperson declined to comment ...Read more

Negotiations have come to an end at a meatpacking plant in northern Colorado, where thousands of workers bargained for months over a new contract — a fight that culminated in a multi-week strike, corporate officials announced Sunday.

The Greeley, Colorado, beef processing plant, the flagship of JBS USA, will resume normal operations under a ...Read more

Excitement over the Artemis II launch to the moon has raised some questions about the cost.

The U.S. government has spent at least $93 billion and counting on the Artemis program, which seeks to eventually establish a long-term human presence on the moon. There are other nations contributing, such as Canada and Japan, but it is relatively small...Read more

The Federal Reserve is asking major U.S. banks for details about their exposure to private credit following a surge in redemptions from the funds and a rise in troubled loans in the industry, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The queries by Fed examiners are intended to assess the level of stress in the private credit industry ...Read more

A Cook County jury on Friday decided that Abbott Laboratories should pay $17 million in punitive damages — on top of the $53 million in damages awarded a day earlier — in four cases in which mothers alleged the company’s formula for premature infants caused their babies to become severely ill.

The decision Friday came at the close of a ...Read more

A 20-year-old man was arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, according to police.

A company spokesperson also confirmed the attack in a statement and said that someone "made threats at our San Francisco headquarters."

"Thankfully, no one was hurt," according to the statement. "We deeply ...Read more

A new UNLV report on artificial intelligence in the gaming industry says one in five companies have a dedicated AI governance role, and most organizations have no established governance practices.

In what is targeted to be an annually updated report, the UNLV International Gaming Institute published its first research on the use of artificial ...Read more

MIAMI — Being raised in South Florida, Barron Trump knows about scorching hot summers.

And now President Donald Trump’s youngest son, 20, has started a beverage line to help folks quench their thirst in the warmest season.

Called Sollos, a play on the word “sol” for Spanish, it’s a yerba mate —a naturally caffeinated herbal tea ...Read more

San Jose wants to shape how local governments use artificial intelligence, and it’s restructuring its AI coalition into an independent nonprofit to do it.

The city is converting GovAI — a coalition founded by San Jose in 2023 — into a nonprofit, using a $150,000 grant from the Packard Foundation to fund the transition. The conversion ...Read more

If you believe Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, American 401(k) accounts are about to get much better.

Thanks to President Trump's "bold new vision of a new golden age for America," Chavez-DeRemer wrote in the Wall Street Journal on March 30, her agency is taking steps to open these crucial retirement accounts to a raft of new investment ...Read more

As Wall Street frets about the tech industry's eye-popping artificial intelligence spending spree, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy isn't blinking.

In a letter to shareholders Thursday, the Seattle-based tech giant's chief defended the $200 billion Amazon plans to spend on AI infrastructure this year, saying the company is not going to be conservative in ...Read more

U.S. inflation surged in March by the most in nearly four years as the war with Iran sent gasoline prices skyrocketing.

The consumer price index rose 0.9% from February, according to data out Friday. From a year ago, it picked up to 3.3%, the strongest pace since 2024.

A record increase in gas prices was responsible for nearly three-quarters ...Read more

After a couple of somnolent performance decades while it nerded out on hybrid hegemony, Toyota has awakened from its slumber. Formula One partnership with Haas, GR86 sportscar, GR Corolla hot hatch. Huzzah.

The latest espresso shot is the 2026 Corolla Hatchback FX Editon burning a hole in my driveway.

You can see it from space. Orange paint, ...Read more

For years, Audi has been popular among consumers looking for sporty vehicles that don’t break the bank, with models from the basic A-Type to the S-Type and RS-Type. Today we consider the 2026 Sporty S5 sedan.

As a sedan lover, I found testing this vehicle both fun and thrilling as I pushed the S5 to the brink in Florida for seven days.

Its ...Read more