It isn't just billionaires leaving California.

Anecdotal data suggest there is also an exodus of regular people who load their belongings into rental trucks and lug them to another state.

U-Haul's survey of the more than 2.5 million one-way trips using its vehicles in the U.S. last year showed that the gap between the number of people leaving ...Read more

Google and Character.AI, a California startup, have agreed to settle several lawsuits that allege artificial intelligence-powered chatbots harmed the mental health of teenagers.

Court documents filed this week show that the companies are finalizing settlements in lawsuits in which families accused them of not putting in enough safeguards before...Read more

Ford Motor Co. says eyes-off and hands-off autonomous driving will be road-ready in 2028, and it'll introduce new artificial intelligence-powered features to its current customers starting this year.

The Dearborn, Michigan automaker on Wednesday introduced the Ford AI assistant and its new vehicle compute center at the massive CES consumer ...Read more

Microsoft dismissed rumors that mass layoffs are coming to the company this month, after reports suggesting another round of deep cuts was in the works swirled online this week.

Multiple websites aggregated reports" earlier this week that Microsoft was planning to cut between 11,000 and 22,000 roles in January, affecting the tech giant's cloud,...Read more

Since the January 2025 firestorms damaged or destroyed more than 12,000 homes in Los Angeles County, fire victims have repeatedly complained that insurers have delayed, denied or underpaid many of their claims, with most still displaced.

A year later, state lawmakers have introduced legislation to address those problems.

One bill, authored by ...Read more

For cash-strapped, lower-income homebuyers, the housing market is a tough place to be.

And it’s only becoming more uncomfortable in 2026.

A new federal rule has changed the eligibility targets for certain down payment- and closing cost-assistance programs, which could make the application for funds more competitive. And even when those ...Read more

All Caribou Coffee customers will no longer pay more for plant-based milk, and a prominent animal rights group is taking the credit.

Until Jan. 2, customers had to swallow an upcharge of about $1 for nondairy milk like oat, coconut and almond at the Minnesota-founded chain. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said in a Jan. 6 ...Read more

The Bay Area and California both posted robust job gains in November that represented rebounds from months of feeble hiring trends marred by waves of employment losses, a new federal report released Wednesday shows.

The report, delayed by a weeks-long government shutdown, revealed that the Bay Area gained 4,800 jobs in November, snapping six ...Read more

Avelo Airlines, the only commercial carrier believed to have been operating full deportation flights on a regular basis for the Trump administration, is ending its relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and will no longer charter those deportations.

The budget carrier signed an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security ...Read more

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette owner Block Communications Inc. said Wednesday that it will cease publication of the newspaper May 3, an announcement that came just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider a stay on enforcement of a lower-court ruling the newspaper had called onerous.

The decision from the company follows an extended ...Read more

Consumers splurged this last holiday season, enticed by good deals even as they worried about growth and inflation.

Online shoppers spent a record $257.8 billion during the holiday season as they snagged major discounts on electronics, sporting goods and appliances, Adobe data show.

The San José company, which analyzes online transactions on ...Read more

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will fold after nearly a century. The paper will cease operations entirely — both its digital and physical versions — on May 3.

The announcement comes on the heels of years of declining ad revenue and internal strife within the newsroom, including a years-long labor strike.

With the paper’s closure, there are ...Read more

Paramount's campaign to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery was dealt another blow Wednesday after Warner's board rejected the latest bid from the company.

The board cited the enormous debt load that Paramount would need to finance its proposed $108-billion takeover.

Warner's board this week unanimously voted against Paramount's most recent ...Read more

Barnes & Noble will open four new bookstores in the Chicago area by summertime, including a flagship location downtown on State Street, part of a national move to revive its brick-and-mortar retail presence.

The bookseller will open a store this summer in the former Old Navy outlet at 150 N. State St. Another Barnes & Noble store will open in ...Read more

Sometime around Christmas, Sarah Burzio noticed that the holiday sales bump for her stationery business included some mysterious new customers: a flurry of orders from anonymous email addresses associated with Amazon.com Inc.

Burzio, who doesn’t sell her products on the retail giant’s site, soon discovered that Amazon had duplicated her ...Read more

Back in the fall, Apple sent me the new iPhone 17 Pro Max and the thinner and lighter iPhone Air.

I reviewed the 17 Pro Max, and I’ve been using it daily — and it is still great — but what about the Air? Is it a phone I’d want to use every day?

The Air and 17 Pro Max are similar in a lot of ways. Where they differ in size and a few ...Read more

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — One Trump supporter’s journey from a mall kiosk to a Bucks County strip mall is coming to an end this month.

The “Trump Store,” a Bensalem spot for merchandise and knickknacks celebrating President Donald Trump, is closing its doors after six years in business. The store’s final day is Jan. 31.

Mike ...Read more

Artificial intelligence dominated the conversation as CES 2026 opened Tuesday. Nearly every major exhibitor framed AI as a tool that can make daily routines smoother, faster and more efficient.

The emphasis was less on far-off science fiction and more on practical systems designed to improve how people live and work right now.

The four-day ...Read more

A small fleet of ships booked by Chevron Corp. is sailing to Venezuela as the company emerges as the only exporter of the country’s oil following the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces.

Chevron is poised to export more Venezuelan oil this month than last, with at least 11 ships scheduled to arrive in the Venezuelan government-...Read more