Mark Zuckerberg pledged that Meta Platforms Inc. will spend even more aggressively on artificial intelligence in the year ahead, raising fresh concerns from investors who drove the stock down on worries the company may not have an obvious return on the massive investment.

Microsoft Corp. cloud services are recovering from an outage that disrupted its workplace software products and the operations of several companies, including Alaska Air Group Inc.

President Donald Trump plans to nominate Ryan Baasch, a staffer at the National Economic Council, for a slot on the US Federal Trade Commission, according to people familiar with the matter.

A former director at a US military contractor that sells computer vulnerabilities pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing and reselling $35 million in trade secrets to a Russian cyber-tools broker whose clients include the Russian government.

Louisiana-based Acadia Health LLC will pay $875,000 to settle a proposed class action alleging it negligently failed to protect the personal information of nearly 130,000 people that was exposed in a 2023 data breach.

Banks suing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over a Biden-era rule enabling consumers to transfer data to fintechs won their bid to delay the regulation while the Trump administration overhauls it.

Stellantis NV said that it expects one-time charges in the second half of the year as political, economic and regulatory pressures force the automaker into making strategic changes.

US President Donald Trump said he didn’t discuss approving sales of Nvidia Corp.’s Blackwell chips to China with his counterpart Xi Jinping, dampening speculation that Washington will allow exports of the powerful AI accelerators to the world’s largest semiconductor market.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says semiconductor tariffs are not part of the trade deal between South Korea and US, in a post on X.

Mark Zuckerberg pledged that Meta Platforms Inc. will spend even more aggressively on artificial intelligence in the year ahead, raising fresh concerns from investors who drove the stock down on worries the company may not have an obvious return on the massive investment.

Alphabet Inc. sales topped quarterly Wall Street estimates, fueled by a surge in demand for its cloud and artificial intelligence services. Shares rose as much as 7.5% in extended trading.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. Chief Executive Officer David Zaslav hosted a town hall meeting for employees on Wednesday and said the board would need a higher bid to justify a sale of the company, according to people who heard his comments.

Two Trump judicial picks are struggling to reach a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee to advance their nominations to federal court seats in Mississippi, the panel’s chair said.

Harvey, a startup building artificial intelligence tools for law firms, has closed its third major funding round of 2025 — bringing its valuation to $8 billion, according to a person familiar with the deal.

Edelman & Edelman PC’s former controller says the New York personal injury law firm illegally terminated him after he suffered a stroke and falsely accused him of embezzling money.

Elon Musk’s lawyer pledged to continue the billionaire’s legal crusade against OpenAI as he slammed the attorneys general of California and Delaware for not blocking the artificial intelligence startup’s restructuring as a for-profit company.

A Kirkland & Ellis partner and a former chief counsel to Sen. Ted Cruz (R) are among recommended judicial nominees Texas’ two Republican senators have sent to the White House, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

Lena Serhan joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as a partner in its Houston office, the firm announced Wednesday.

Two Trump judicial picks are struggling to reach a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee to advance their nominations to federal court seats in Mississippi, the panel’s chair said.

President Donald Trump plans to nominate Ryan Baasch, a staffer at the National Economic Council, for a slot on the US Federal Trade Commission, according to people familiar with the matter.

Edelman & Edelman PC’s former controller says the New York personal injury law firm illegally terminated him after he suffered a stroke and falsely accused him of embezzling money.

A jury took about two hours Tuesday to acquit a man accused of soliciting President Donald Trump’s assassination on social media, a setback for the Justice Department office led by Trump’s newly-installed loyalist Lindsey Halligan.

Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino won’t have to appear in court Wednesday, appellate judges decided, granting the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court’s order requiring his daily presence.

Legal scholars from Stanford and the University of Chicago urged the Federal Circuit to rule that secret third-party sales don’t qualify as prior art when analyzing patents’ validity, challenging a broader reading of the on-sale bar from a recent district court decision.