Tesla Inc. is facing increased scrutiny from federal regulators over its driver-assistance system known as Autopilot, with the electric carmaker being the target of a “special order” amid concerns about a possible work-around of monitoring meant to keep drivers’ hands on the wheel.
Meta Platforms Inc. intercepted a Chinese influence campaign it described as the “largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world,” the company said Tuesday.
The FBI said Tuesday that it has taken down a network of hacked devices responsible for extorting tens of millions of dollars from victims around the world.
In antitrust circles, Joshua Wright was a star. A former Federal Trade Commission member, he consulted for Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc. and worked with prominent law firms, the Federalist Society and GOP donors like Peter Thiel. From 2015 until last year, Wright directed faculty hiring at George Mason University’s law school, which has positioned itself at the center of the conservative legal universe.
Trans Mountain Corp. is seeking to alter the route of its controversial oil pipeline in order to prevent another costly delay at the expense of “irreparable harm” to the local community’s cultural and spiritual rights, an indigenous group in British Columbia said.
Argentina’s central bank expects monthly inflation in August to have accelerated to almost double the pace of July after the government devalued the peso, two officials said in another sign the economy is quickly deteriorating.
Ozempic, Novo Nordisk A/S’s popular diabetes drug that’s also used for weight loss, could be one of the next drugs to have its price slashed in bargaining with the US government.
Gazprom PJSC’s net income for the first half of the year fell to the lowest since 2020, due to the Russian natural gas giant’s sharply reduced flows to Europe.
A San Francisco redevelopment agency is borrowing $60 million in the municipal bond market this week to help finance affordable housing in a city that has some of the highest rents in the nation and is suffering from an exodus of people.
Many Americans take pride in their home state — but Texans are more likely than anyone else to settle down there.
