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Trump seems to claim TikTok deal ahead of Wednesday deadline
President Trump, who years ago led the charge to ban TikTok from the U.S., seemed to claim credit for saving it in a move he said should delight young...
California’s Punjabi truckers say they’re being harassed after deadly Florida wreck
For 15 years, Sumit Singh has hauled freight to and from Los Angeles ports and across the country. For the first time, though, the Punjabi Sikh truck driver is...
Rivian lays off hundreds of employees ahead of the end of EV tax credits
Rivian has laid off about 200 employees as the electric vehicle maker prepares for a U.S. economy with fewer incentives to go green. The electric truck and sport-utility vehicle...
Warner Bros. Discovery sues AI firm for Batman, Superman copyright infringement
Warner Bros. Discovery has joined a key copyright infringement case that could test the legal bounds of using artificial intelligence to create digital replicas of well-known characters. The company...
Biotech company Amgen set to build $600-million research center in Thousand Oaks
Biotech company Amgen is investing $600 million into a new research center for its Thousand Oaks campus. The new site will create hundreds of jobs and feature advanced automation...
Contributor: Why is California losing good jobs to other states? It’s not rocket science
For a century, it worked, and brilliantly. The “California model” rested on massive investments in higher education, development of industrial zones in places such as the South Bay and...
Alphabet’s stock climbs after judge rules Google won’t be forced to sell Chrome
When a federal judge deemed Google a “monopolist” last year, questions lingered about how he would help restore competition in online search.On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he cut 4,000 support roles because of AI
Artificial intelligence already is replacing certain jobs at technology companies.Last week, Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff said the San Francisco software giant was able to shrink the number of...
ChatGPT pulled teen into a ‘dark and hopeless place’ before he took his life, lawsuit against OpenAI alleges
Adam Raine, a California teenager, used ChatGPT to find answers about everything, including his schoolwork as well as his interests in music, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Japanese comics.But his conversations...
New data uncover another hidden cost of EV ownership: high insurance premiums
As the price of buying an electric vehicle is set to soar with tariffs and the end of government incentives, drivers who want to go green have another hidden...
