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California socialite and ex-Dodger must pay $22M in punitive damages

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday ordered California socialite Rebecca Grossman to pay $21 million in punitive damages to the parents of two young brothers who died when her car struck them in a hit-and-run collision in 2020.

Search expands for a teenage girl swept into the ocean in Southern California

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) – The search for a teenage girl swept away by a big wave while walking on a Southern California beach expanded Wednesday as high surf kept battering the coast.

Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Payments giant Visa said Wednesday that it has embedded its payment network inside of ChatGPT, empowering the chatbot to independently shop and complete transactions on behalf of its user.

From rockets to brain implants, here's a look at Elon Musk's vast empire

NEW YORK (AP) – Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and now first-ever trillionaire, controls a lot of different businesses. Electric vehicles. Brain implants. Underground tunnels. A social media platform once called Twitter. And a rocket maker that blasted off its trading from Wall Street this week.

Anthropic takes latest AI models offline to comply with new export controls

WASHINGTON (AP) – AI giant Anthropic said Friday it has taken its latest artificial intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by foreign nationals.

You can ignore AI giants like SpaceX, but your 401(k) won't

NEW YORK (AP) – While you might want to ignore all the hubbub around SpaceX, Elon Musk and IPOs, your 401(k) likely can’t. SpaceX is now worth $2.1 trillion after its stock launched 19.2% higher in its debut on Wall Street. Whether or not you believe it deserves to be worth more than Exxon Mobil, Bank of America and Coca-Cola combined, the collective market does.

Putin, Zelenskyy speak with Trump as drone strikes kill 2 in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy each spoke by phone with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday, as Trump marked his 80th birthday and the war in Ukraine remained a flashpoint ahead of this week’s G7 summit.

Trump warns Israel and Iran not to 'blow it' after new strikes threaten emerging ceasefire deal

JERUSALEM (AP) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday urged no further attacks by anyone after Israel’s military said it launched strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut, potentially complicating efforts to finalize a deal to end the U.S.-Iran war. Smoke rose over the Lebanese capital, and the health ministry said three people were killed and 16 others wounded.

Trump celebrates turning 80 with a UFC cage-fighting event while big issues loom over his presidency

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump marks turning 80 on Sunday with a birthday celebration that once would have seemed unfathomable: a cage-fighting show on the storied South Lawn of the White House.

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday showed how he had learned to stop worrying about inflation and simply, in his own words, “love” it. Asked about the new report that the consumer price index in May had jumped 4.2% over the last year, the president took a surprisingly optimistic tack with the challenging news.