An internal Amazon memo has provided a stark look at the company鈥檚 carefully laid out plans to grow its influence in Southern California through a plethora of efforts that include burnishing its reputation through charity work and pushing back against 鈥渓abor agitation鈥� from the Teamsters and other groups.
Tech leaders have been vocal proponents of the need to regulate artificial intelligence, but they鈥檙e also lobbying hard to make sure the new rules work in their favor.
U.S. officials proposed a $31 million recovery plan for聽Canada lynx on Friday in a bid to help the snow-dependent wildcat species that scientists say could be wiped out in parts of the contiguous U.S. by the end of the century.
A humpback whale visiting the waters off Seattle dazzled onlookers Thursday morning with several breaches in the bay just beyond the city鈥檚 downtown area.
Oregon State, Washington State and the Mountain West announced a football scheduling agreement Friday for the 2024 season that gives the two Pac-12 schools six opponents each and keeps open the possibility that they will operate as a two-team conference for at least a year.
The Washington state Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a request by the University of Washington and the Pac-12 to put on hold a lower court鈥檚 ruling that gave Oregon State and Washington State control of the conference until the high court can make a full review.
U.S. health officials recalled three more brands of whole and pre-cut cantaloupes Friday as the number of people聽sickened by salmonella more than doubled this week.
Microsoft on Monday hired two leading executives from the company that created ChatGPT after one of them was abruptly fired by OpenAI, the startup whose chatbot kicked off the era of聽generative artificial intelligence.
Oregon State and Washington State are moving toward聽keeping the Pac-12 alive聽as a two-team conference for as long as two years while entering an agreement with the Mountain West
Thousands of workers at more than 200 U.S. Starbucks stores plan to walk off the job Thursday in what organizers say is the largest strike yet in the two-year-old effort to unionize the company鈥檚 stores.
Hollywood鈥檚 months of labor unrest are coming to an end, but the post-strike landscape that awaits actors and writers may be far from happily-ever-after.
Facebook and Instagram will require political ads running on their platforms to disclose if they were created using聽artificial intelligence, their parent company announced on Wednesday.
Amazon used a secret algorithm to essentially help raise prices on other online sites and also 鈥渄estroyed鈥� internal communications as the Federal Trade Commission undertook an antitrust investigation against it, according to newly unredacted portions of the agency鈥檚 lawsuit.
Three passengers sued Alaska Airlines on Thursday, saying they suffered emotional distress from an incident last month in which an off-duty pilot is accused of trying to聽shut down the engines聽of a plane while catching a ride in the cockpit from Washington state to San Francisco.
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BY CLAIRE SAVAGE AND MELISSA PEREZ WINDER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Customers fell for Starbucks鈥� fall menu in the fiscal fourth quarter, with Pumpkin Spice Lattes and apple croissants helping the company achieve record revenue.
