One of Uber's freshest offerings aims to deliver fruits and vegetables to users at a discount — and reinvigorate the grocery wars with rivals like Amazon. On Thursday, Uber said it would release a "Fresh Days" feature that lets some users find discounts of up to 50% on fresh produce, meat, and dairy items. The weekly offer will have its own banner in the Uber Eats app, the company said.The move is Uber's latest effort to dominate in grocery delivery. It's a crowded field with competition from companies lik ...

Amazon is set to pay a record fine to settle claims that it misled customers into renewing their Prime subscriptions. The Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it had settled the case with a record $2.5 billion fine, of which $1.5 billion will go toward refunding customers."Today, the Trump-Vance FTC made history and secured a record-breaking, monumental win for the millions of Americans who are tired of deceptive subscriptions that feel impossible to cancel," said FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferg ...

Starbucks' iconic Reserve Roastery in Seattle is among the stores the company is closing, Business Insider has learned. Starbucks on Thursday announced it would close many of its corporate-owned stores across North America, targeting locations where the company said it found it is "unable to create the physical environment our customers and partners expect" or where it doesn't "see a path to financial performance."A letter was posted on the Reserve Roastery door early Thursday morning, breaking the news th ...

Starbucks on Thursday announced it would close 1% of its North American stores in addition to sweeping layoffs. The closures amount to more than 120 shuttered locations where the company has found it is "unable to create the physical environment our customers and partners expect" or where it doesn't "see a path to financial performance," according to a statement published by the company.About 900 non-retail employees will be laid off on Friday, the company announced. "I believe these steps are necessary t ...

There's a rule of thumb in apartment hunting: People want something affordable, spacious, and convenient, but in the end, they can only get two of the three. Big and cheap? Prepare for a long commute. Less expensive and downtown? Enjoy your shoebox. Spacious and well-located? Get ready to shell out big bucks. It's a classic "trilemma," or an impossible triangle: No matter how you, well, triangulate it, one priority has to go if the other two remain.President Donald Trump — and the American people along with ...

Jimmy Kimmel's return to ABC may have pleased his fans, but it did not entirely pacify Disney shareholders. On Wednesday, a coalition of Disney shareholders sent a letter to the company demanding internal records, from emails to meeting schedules, related to its brief suspension of the late-night host. Disney is the parent company of ABC, where Kimmel's show is aired.Lawyers representing the American Federation of Teachers and Reporters Without Borders asked Disney to disclose how the suspension decision w ...

For decades, experts have debated how to tell when machines cross into true intelligence. On Wednesday in Berlin, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and British physicist David Deutsch agreed on a new benchmark: If an AI could crack quantum gravity — and explain why — that might be enough to call it human-level smart. Altman stopped at Axel Springer's headquarters on Wednesday to meet with tech leaders and collect an award. That night, in a fireside chat, publisher Mathias Döpfner asked about Altman's favorite book — D ...

Jimmy Kimmel's return to late-night reached 6.2 million viewers on broadcast, despite not reaching nearly a quarter of ABC affiliates, according to a statement from Disney. Disney cited Nielsen Preliminary Fast National Live+Same Day Program Ratings for Tuesday.Tuesday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" was the host's first show after being temporarily suspended following his controversial remarks about the death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. In the second quarter of this year, Kimmel's show had ...

A major TV company says it will continue not to air Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show after the host's return, though it said it is in "productive discussions" with Disney. Nexstar Media Group, one of the nation's largest owners of local TV stations, said it would continue to preempt "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Wednesday after declining to air Kimmel's return on Tuesday night."Nexstar is continuing to evaluate the status of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on our ABC-affiliated local television stations, and the show will be p ...

Honda is the latest automaker to roll back plans for an electric vehicle, citing "market conditions." The company is ending its US production of the Acura ZDX electric crossover that General Motors was producing at a plant in Tennessee, spokespeople for both brands confirmed to Business Insider. The vehicle was only sold in the U.S. and Canada.A spokesperson for Honda said in an emailed statement that the decision was made "to better align our product portfolio with the needs of our customers and market co ...