McDonald’s confirmed that it will roll out a limited $5 combo meal this summer in hopes of enticing inflation-battered customers who have stayed away after the fast-food chain spiked prices.The Chicago-based company said it will introduce a month-long promotion starting June 25 during which diners can choose from four items — either a McDouble or a McChicken sandwich, to go along with small fries, a small soft drink and a four-piece Chicken McNuggets — for just $5.McDonald’s had come under fire after some l ...

The co-founder and chief scientist of ChatGPT maker OpenAI is leaving the company months after helping lead a failed coup against CEO Sam Altman — only to later voice regret over the flopped insurrection.OpenAI said Ilya Sutskever, 38, is departing one day after the artificial-intelligence juggernaut unveiled a new AI model called GPT-4o, capable of realistic voice conversation and able to interact across texts and images. 3 Ilya Sutskever, 38, is departing OpenAI after nearly a decade at the company. AFP ...

The Justice Department has determined that Boeing violated a settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max aircraft, the agency told a federal judge on Tuesday.It is now up to the Justice Department to weigh whether to file charges against the aircraft maker.The Justice Department said Tuesday in a filing in federal district court in Texas that Boeing failed to make changes to prevent it from violating federal anti-fraud laws — a condition o ...

Google parent Alphabet on Tuesday showed how it is building on artificial intelligence across its businesses, including a beefed-up Gemini chatbot and improvements to search, as it faces growing competition from OpenAI and other rivals.At its annual I/O developer event in Mountain View, Calif., CEO Sundar Pichai said the company is rolling out AI Overviews to all users in the US this week after a long period of public testing since last year.The new AI features unveiled on Tuesday will help investors evalua ...

Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs and asking most remote workers to relocate to three main tech offices or quit the company, a source familiar with the matter said Tuesday.Workers at the retail giant’s smaller offices in Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto are being asked to move to other central hubs such as Walmart’s corporate base in Bentonville, Ark., as well as Hoboken, NJ, or Sunnyvale, Calif., the source told Reuters. Walmart will close those smaller hubs later this year, the source added.On a “b ...

Waymo, the Google-owned, self-driving vehicle startup, faces a preliminary probe from federal safety regulators after its robotaxis were linked to nearly two dozen traffic incidents.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday it has received a total of 22 reports, including 17 in which self-driving Waymo cars were the “sole vehicle” involved in a crash.The NHTSA filing said the agency’s probe is focused on “[automated driving system] behavior causing single-party crashes and potential tr ...

Tesla has settled a lawsuit by a former factory employee who says she was fired for complaining about severe sexual harassment, as the electric carmaker faces a series of sex and race discrimination lawsuits.US District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco dismissed Tyonna Turner’s 2023 lawsuit on Monday, one day after she and Tesla informed the judge of the settlement. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Turner worked at Tesla’s flagship Fremont, Calif., assembly plant, where the company is accused in a ...

Microsoft is reportedly facing a fresh antitrust crackdown by European regulators over its alleged use of anticompetitive tactics to boost its Teams virtual meeting software.The European Commission, the European Union’s antitrust watchdog, is moving forward with plans to file formal antitrust charges against Microsoft, the Financial Times reported, citing three sources familiar with the matter.The probe is reportedly centered on concerns that Microsoft has stifled attempts to compete with Teams by making it ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday it has opened an investigation into Amazon’s self-driving Zoox vehicles due to unexpected braking — leading to two rear-end collisions that injured motorcyclists.The NHTSA said it had opened its preliminary evaluation after two crashes involving the self-driving technology unit’s vehicles equipped with the Zoox Automated Driving System that resulted in minor injuries to motorcyclists and started a probe into 500 Zoox vehicles with automated driv ...

A Pennsylvania jury ordered ExxonMobil to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed toxic chemicals in the company’s gasoline and solvents caused his cancer, according to attorneys for the plaintiff.The 10-2 verdict came on Thursday, attorneys said, after a trial in a state court in Philadelphia, where former mechanic Paul Gill alleged he was exposed to benzene in ExxonMobil products while working at a gas station between 1975 and 1980.Following the trial that lasted just over a week, the jury fou ...