LOS ANGELES, May 7 (Reuters) – Amazon.com, on Tuesday unveiled the first of a dozen Volvo electric big rigs it plans to deploy this year to pick up cargo from the nation’s busiest container seaport in Southern California.The e-commerce giant already has eight of those semi trucks in use at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex, where every so-called drayage truck must be zero-emissions by 2035.Amazon unveiled the first of a dozen Volvo electric big rigs it plans to deploy this year. REUTERSThe deployment ...

The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it has opened a new investigation into the Boeing Dreamliner after the planemaker told the regulator last month it may not have completed required inspections.The FAA said it is investigating whether Boeing completed the inspections to confirm adequate bonding and grounding where the wings join the fuselage on certain 787 Dreamliner airplanes “and whether company employees may have falsified aircraft records.” The FAA said it is investigating whether Boeing co ...

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz posted a lengthy essay on LinkedIn urging the coffee chain to overhaul its US operations after the company posted disappointing quarterly earnings.Schultz, who left the company’s board last fall after he became the public face of the company’s resistance to its employees’ unionization drives, wrote on Sunday that Starbucks needs to regain “a maniacal focus on the customer experience, through the eyes of a merchant.”“The answer does not lie in data, but in the stores.”Schu ...

Electric-vehicle maker Tesla has launched another round of layoffs including staff from the software, service and engineering departments, Electrek reported Monday, citing emails and sources familiar with the matter.The move comes after the Elon Musk-led automaker disbanded its EV charging department following Tesla’s announcement last month that it was reducing its global workforce by more than 10%.Tesla, whose shares were up about 1%, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.The layoff ...

Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI language model large enough to compete with those from Alphabet’s Google and ChatGPT owner OpenAI, the Information reported Monday.The new model, internally referred to as MAI-1, is being overseen by recently hired Mustafa Suleyman, the Google DeepMind co-founder and former CEO of AI startup Inflection, the report said, citing two Microsoft employees with knowledge of the effort.Microsoft’s new model is internally referred to as MAI-1. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, ab ...

Tesla has reportedly reneged on summer internship offers it made to college students.Multiple students described their situations in posts on their LinkedIn profiles this week, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.One of the students identified by the outlet said Tesla informed her on Monday via a phone call that she no longer had a summer internship, a development she linked to the workforce and cost-reduction efforts Tesla recently started.Tesla said in mid-April it would shed 10% of its 140,400-person headcount. ...

Warner Bros. Discovery will reportedly implement paid-sharing on Max as it gets stricter later this year about subscribers letting other people use their accounts.Bloomberg reported this week that Warner Bros. Discovery will roll out an option for members to pay for “extra members” streaming with their Max subscriptions to have their own username and password as part of its upcoming effort to curb account-sharing. The outlet cited people “familiar with the company’s plan.”If implemented, that would seemingl ...

Ford recently launched a recall of over 242,600 Maverick trucks, citing an issue that may lead to their tail lights not lighting up.The Michigan-based automaker said in a safety recall report filed Friday to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that if the tail lights on the recalled pickups fail to light up, it could “cause reduced visibility to other drivers in dark conditions, increasing the risk of a collision.” The 242,669 total Maverick trucks subject to recall are part of the mo ...

The Boeing jet that dropped an emergency slide after taking off from JFK Airport on Friday is 33 years old — well past the typical retirement age for a commercial jetliner, according to aviation experts.The chute from Delta Flight 520 had detached from a panel above the right wing shortly after the Los Angeles-bound plane took off from JFK Airport in New York last Friday. The deflated slide was recovered Sunday after it washed up on the Rockaway peninsula, about six miles from JFK, as The Post exclusively r ...

UnitedHealth’s problems are not a threat to the broader economy, the largest US health insurer’s CEO told a Senate panel on Wednesday after senators questioned whether the company’s size could pose a systemic threat.Senators grilled Andrew Witty during the first of two scheduled testimonies in front of Congressional panels on the recent cyberattack on UnitedHealth’s technology unit that impacted almost all patients and providers.“Your company let the country down,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyde ...