What does a scientist look like?

A bright-eyed intellectual donning a white lab coat and goggles? Often, yes. But these days, they could take on the look of a stack of computer servers softly humming away in an air conditioned building.

That’s what a group of scientists from the San Francisco-based Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and Stanford ...Read more

DETROIT — On a recent morning downtown, Eric Allison hopped into the backseat of a sleek six-propeller air taxi and began to explain his company's vision for the future of transportation.

Imagine pulling up your Uber app, said Allison, the chief product officer for Joby Aviation, and ticking a "Joby" option. A car soon arrives and shuttles ...Read more

The rhythmic rumble of the “L” isn’t a death rattle — yet.

But Chicago’s public transit systems are set to get gut-punched early next year by a funding deficit in the hundreds of millions of dollars. If state lawmakers don’t agree to allocate more money to public transit, branches on half of the CTA’s “L” lines could go silent...Read more

A call in January had Malcolm Gordon springing from his seat at work. His infant son was locked inside the family's Ford Mustang Mach-E after his wife had gone to charge the vehicle on her way to pick up their eldest from winter camp.

He drove the half-hour to where his 2021 Mach-E had become unresponsive and broke the window to unlock the ...Read more

Uwajimaya, the Seattle-based Asian grocer, has navigated hardship before.

Not long after the family business opened its doors in 1928, it temporarily shuttered when founders Fujimatsu and Sadako Moriguchi and several of their children were incarcerated at a Japanese detention camp during World War II.

More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Leaving the sink on for hours or forgetting to turn off the shower in a Bellagio hotel room doesn’t waste even a fraction of the water that the resort’s air-conditioning system does.

Every drop of water used indoors on the Strip heads to a wastewater plant in East Las Vegas, where it’s treated and sent back into Lake Mead, ...Read more

Apple is trying to bring machine learning to Motor City.

The smartphone giant opened its Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit on Tuesday to offer free workshops on artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing to small and medium-sized businesses.

Apple stands out as one of the companies most dependent on manufacturing as well as ...Read more

Venture capital investments in the Greater Los Angeles region more than doubled to $5.8 billion in the second quarter, compared to a year ago, as investors poured money into the area's defense tech and aerospace companies amid escalating geopolitical tensions.

Costa Mesa, California-based defense tech company Anduril received the most venture ...Read more

Union Pacific announced an $85 billion deal Tuesday to purchase Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern, an agreement that, if approved by shareholders and regulators, would create a transcontinental railroad company, but cost Georgia a Fortune 500 headquarters.

Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena will be the top executive of the combined company, which will be ...Read more

Doctors at Johns Hopkins Medicine hospitals and facilities could stop accepting insurance from national health insurance provider UnitedHealthcare in about a month if an agreement to maintain the health plan is not reached.

Just under 60,000 patients on UnitedHealthcare plans see Hopkins providers in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

The...Read more

Microsoft Corp. is in advanced talks to land a deal that could give it ongoing access to critical OpenAI technology, an agreement that would remove a major obstacle to the startup’s efforts to become a for-profit enterprise.

The companies have discussed new terms that would let Microsoft use OpenAI’s latest models and other technology even ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration moved Tuesday to eliminate the last major environmental regulation on the U.S. auto industry.

The long-expected step came via a proposal to eliminate a key 2009 finding that enabled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The repeal of that finding could trigger a ...Read more

Ford Motor Co. has secured a $3 billion line of credit ahead of another tariff deadline on Friday and amid shifting policy around fuel economy regulations.

The Dearborn automaker can draw upon the funds as it wishes for a year, and it must maintain at least $4 billion in cash during that period, according to the Tuesday filing with the ...Read more

UnitedHealth Group’s massive health insurance business will drop some Medicare Advantage health plans covering more than 600,000 people as it tries to reverse its financial declines.

The company’s insurance arm, UnitedHealthcare, is the nation’s largest provider of Medicare Advantage health plans, which are a privatized version of the ...Read more

Though still burning through cash, Boeing significantly cut its losses in the second quarter, marking another step forward on its path to recovery.

The company on Tuesday reported a net loss of $612 million, or 92 cents per share, for the three months from April to June.

During the same three months last year — when Boeing was still reeling ...Read more

During Orinda, California, homeowner Yasaman Nazmi Lee’s home-insurance saga — one of millions playing out across California as the age of mega-fires drives insurers to pull back from coverage and raise prices — there was bad news, then good news. But even the good news was not great.

Nazmi Lee’s insurer, Travelers, threatened to drop ...Read more

Promising recovery under a new CEO, Chrysler parent Stellantis NV on Tuesday reinstated its annual guidance that in the second half of the year, it will post higher net revenue than in the first half and a low single-digit operating income margin.

The forecast starts providing a picture of what the transition led by Antonio Filosa, who took ...Read more

UPS saw its second quarter revenue and profit decline compared with a year ago as it faces trade volatility and decreased U.S. shipping volumes.

The shipping giant reported $1.28 billion in net income for the second quarter, down nearly 9% from $1.4 billion a year ago.

Its quarterly revenue was $21.2 billion, nearly 3% from $21.8 billion a ...Read more

The federal government has paid California dairy farms more than $230 million to subsidize losses in milk production resulting from bird flu, records show, an amount that the dairy industry expects to climb higher as more claims for damages are processed.

The H5N1 bird flu has swept through more than 75% of California's 1,000 dairy farms since ...Read more

Minnesotans can obtain more information about how companies use their personal data, and the right to demand corrections or deletions, under a new state law taking effect this week.

The law allows consumers to request to see their personal data maintained by a company. It’s unclear how quickly businesses will be prepared to comply with it, ...Read more