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The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.

Novo Nordisk A/S’s blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy received Food and Drug Administration approval to treat a serious form of liver disease, beating rival Eli Lilly & Co. to the US market for the increasingly prevalent condition.

At a dinner with reporters in San Francisco, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spilled details on the company's ambitions beyond ChatGPT.

The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, as a report on consumer sentiment revealed growing concerns about tariff impacts, inflation, and the jobs market.

“Is there anything - ANYTHING - Big Tech won’t do for a quick buck?” Hawley wrote in a post on X announcing the investigation.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he doesn't agree with federal subsidies for high-speed EV chargers, but that his department "will respect Congress' will" and release the funds.

For most Americans, we just lived through the highest period of inflation in our lives. And we are reminded of this every time we go grocery shopping. All over TikTok, tons of people have posted videos of how little they got for … $20. $40. $100. Most upsetting to us: an $8 box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.Food prices are almost 30% higher than they were five years ago. It’s bad. And those new, higher prices aren’t going away.At the same time, prices are no longer inflating at a wild pace. For the last two years, the rate of inflation has slowed way down. And yet, our fears or feelings that things will spiral out of control again? Those have not slowed down.This mismatch has been giving us all the …. feelings. Inflation feelings. Infeelings. On our latest show: we sort through our infeeltions. We talk to the economists who have studied us. We learn why our personal inflation calculators don’t always match the professional ones.Listen free at these links: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, the NPR app or anywhere you get podcasts.Find more Planet Money: Facebook / Instagram / TikTok / Our weekly Newsletter.Support Planet Money, get bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening and now Summer School episodes one week early by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.

Both the SP 500 ETF ($SPY) and the Nasdaq 100 ETF ($QQQ) closed in negative territory as investors await updates from a high-stakes summit between President Tr...

The Trump administration is considering using funds from the US Chips Act to take a stake in Intel Corp., according to people familiar with the discussions, part of efforts to rescue the embattled chipmaker and shore up domestic semiconductor manufacturing.

Louisiana’s top prosecutor sued the popular online gaming platform Roblox on Thursday, alleging that its failure to implement strong safety protocols for children has made it “the perfect place for pedophiles.”The suit, filed by Attorney General Liz Murrill in Louisiana’s 21st Judicial District, accuses the California-based company of intentionally or recklessly designing a platform with no age verification process, allowing Roblox's tens of millions of users to easily create accounts with fake birthdays.