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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Amazon is eliminating the use of the puffy plastic air pillows used in delivery boxes, joining other major companies that are cutting their plastic use. The company said it was shipping 15 billion plastic pillows annually, and the changes represent its largest plastic packaging reduction effort in

By Ramishah Maruf and Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN New York (CNN) — CDK Global is ubiquitous in the auto dealership world – its software is used at 15,000 dealers. Its products handle everything from records to scheduling. Now, thousands of dealerships across the United States and Canada are entering a third day in a near deadlock

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — Happy day-after-summer-solstice. With any luck, if your employer has instituted a Summer Fridays policy, you’ll get to knock off work early or even take the whole day off. It’s always been a popular perk — because who doesn’t want to start their weekend early? However, the majority

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group has gone ice-cold. The conservative social media company has lost roughly half its market value since May 30, the day former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in a hush money trial. Trump Media’s volatile share

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The skin gets flush with fever, the breaths grow short, the heart races, dizziness sets in. The helmet and goggles only make matters worse, trapping heat on the head and the eyes. There’s little to no escape from sweltering temperatures for construction workers like Eva Marroquin, who cleans work

By Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — TikTok ramped up its attacks on the Biden administration Thursday over a law that could ban the popular app from the United States, arguing in a court filing that US TikTok users could be forced to live on an “island” of content disconnected from the rest of the world

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Bugatti has unveiled its new model, the Bugatti Tourbillon, a massively powerful hybrid with an equally impressive pricetag. The car will replace the $3.3 million, 1,500 horsepower Bugatti Chiron. You might have expected Bugatti’s new model to be all-electric. Not only is the industry headed in that direction, but

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Parts of a pricey blender that can cost up to $990 can cause deep cuts, Vitamix announced in an expanded recall Thursday — but don’t expect a refund. After dozens of reports of lacerations from exposed blades, Vitamix announced a recall of about 569,000 blending containers and

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Restaurant chains from Applebee’s to McDonald’s have in recent months clocked a troubling trend: Customers watching their budgets are spending less, and dining out less often. So they’ve come up with a solution — offer meal deals and discounts to bring people back. But Olive Garden is holding

By Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Big changes are coming for New York’s youngest social media users after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed two bills into law Thursday clamping down on digital platforms’ algorithms and use of children’s data. The unprecedented move makes New York the first state to pass a law regulating social media algorithms

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Toyota is recalling 145,000 Lexus TX and Toyota Grand Highlander SUVs because of an issue that could cause one of the side curtain airbags to fail to deploy in some situations. The curtain airbag on the driver’s side may not deploy properly “during certain crashes” if the driver’s side

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Reports of harrowing and sometimes tragic incidents aboard airplanes seem to have accelerated this year, leading many to wonder if it’s still safe to fly. Statistics suggest that flying commercial is still the safest way to travel. But the first half of this year has been one

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Mortgage rates fell this week to their lowest level since early April, taking some pressure off America’s unaffordable housing market. The standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.87% in the week ending June 20, mortgage financing giant Freddie Mac reported Thursday. That’s down from last week’s 6.95% average and

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — The OpenAI co-founder who left the high-flying artificial intelligence startup last month has announced his next venture: a company dedicated to building safe, powerful artificial intelligence that could become a rival to his old employer. Ilya Sutskever announced plans for the new company, aptly named Safe Superintelligence

By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists at The Washington Post went on the record late Wednesday, calling for leadership change at the storied newspaper as questions swirl over the integrity of its new publisher and chief executive, Will Lewis. “I don’t know a single person at the Post who thinks the

By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Leading shipping groups have urged governments “with influence” to put a stop to Houthi attacks on vessels in the Red Sea after a second freighter sank this week. At least three seafarers have been killed in the attacks so far. The latest sinking is likely to have led

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — This weekend’s rematch between basketball rivals Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese is breaking more records before it even begins. Ticket prices for Clark’s Indiana Fever and Reese’s Chicago Sky are the most expensive for a WNBA game ever, according to TickPick, with the average hovering at around

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Corporate America is rapidly adopting artificial intelligence to automate work once exclusively done by humans. More than half (61%) of large US firms plan to use AI within the next year to automate tasks previously done by employees, according to a survey of finance chiefs released Thursday.