A Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google, the parent companies of Instagram and YouTube, liable of negligence by designing a purposefully addictive app that ultimately contributed to a young girl’s mental health issues. Constitutional attorney Chris Murray, who is also a partner at First & Fourteenth, joins "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss the landmark verdict.

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Forbes Senior Editor Alan Ohnsman sat down with Forbes Talks to discuss Tesla’s strategic pivot toward its rapidly growing battery storage and energy business. Ohnsman explains the company's significant challenges in the electric vehicle market, including falling global sales and increased competition from Chinese rivals like BYD.

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President Donald Trump will sign an order instructing the Department of Homeland Security to pay Transportation Security Administration officers during the partial government shutdown, he announced Thursday, though it is unclear where the money is coming from and what authority Trump will use to enact the order.

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BIG NUMBER

Nearly $1 billion. That is how much money in payroll has not been paid to TSA agents in a timely manner this fiscal year, according to a Wednesday testimony from Ha Nguyen McNeill, a senior administrator for the TSA. Employees of the agency have gone without pay for about 40 days during the partial government shutdown.

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At the heart of the Department of Homeland Security shutdown and accompanying disorder at some major airports across the U.S. is disagreements over the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act stuck in the Senate. The measure proposes making changes to the voting process in the U.S. and includes a requirement for voter identification. Democrats have pushed back on the legislation for weeks, seeking to implement guardrails on ICE operations after federal agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti amid January protests in Minnesota. Democrats have countered Republican proposals with offers that include pay for TSA agents, but those measures have failed to gain traction. In the meantime, TSA officers have quit their jobs and called out of work at high rates while passengers at airports like Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport have been stifled with hours-long security wait times.

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Meta and Google, the parent company of YouTube, were found liable for harming a woman’s mental health due to addictive design features, a California jury found in a landmark decision on Wednesday, just one day after a jury in New Mexico ordered the Facebook parent company to pay $375 million for enabling child exploitation and misleading the users about safety features.

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Bonuses for Wall Street employees jumped to a record $49.2 billion overall pool, New York’s state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Thursday morning, which he attributed to strong trading activity and a 30% rise in Wall Street’s profits.

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DiNapoli estimated the bonuses would generate $199 million more in state income tax revenue and $91 million more for New York City over the previous year, but he said tax revenue may fall short of expectations as Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposed budget assumed Wall Street bonuses would rise 25.9%.

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The White House turned down an offer from Tesla chief and former special government employee Elon Musk to pay Transportation Security Administration officers during the partial government shutdown, a White House spokesperson told Forbes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/03/25/white-house-refuses-elon-musks-offer-to-pay-tsa-staff-amid-partial-government-shutdown/

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Forbes Senior Contributor and author of 'Brain Rush: How to Invest and Compete in the Real World of Generative AI' Peter Cohan sat down with Forbes Talks to discuss why AI is currently increasing the complexity and density of work rather than reducing it.

Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2026/03/12/ai-was-supposed-to-free-workers-instead-its-burying-them-in-busywork/

Artificial intelligence is driving workers to spend more time on busy work – squeezing out time they could be devoting to more valuable activities such as creating new growth opportunities.

That is the conclusion of a survey of 164,000 workers’ digital work activity, according to ActivTrak research featured in the Wall Street Journal. 

Following their companies’ adoption of AI, those workers more than doubled the time they spent on email, messaging and chat apps and boosted by 94% their use of human-resources or accounting software, added the Journal.

Rather than freeing them, AI drags them away from creative work. How so? The time AI users devoted to "focused, uninterrupted work — for solving complex problems, writing formulas, creating and strategizing—fell 9%, compared with nearly no change for nonusers,” noted the Journal.

Sadly, all that time working on emails and accounting is the least valuable activity for companies seeking to benefit from their AI investment.

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AI hiring is transforming small businesses in 2026. The critical question: how can owners leverage AI for efficiency—automating resume review and finding qualified candidates faster—while navigating significant risks like algorithmic bias and screening artificially polished applicants? Forbes Contributor TerDawn Deboe explains what small businesses need to know to succeed with AI HR technology.

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A New Mexico jury ruled Tuesday that Meta enabled child exploitation on its platforms and misled users about the platforms’ impact on children’s mental health—a landmark decision that could set precedent as Meta battles similar allegations at the federal level.

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Forbes contributor Micah Logan has seen a recurring theme among business owners whose ventures struggle to thrive: they tend to make stupid mistakes. Now, that’s not a dig at the intelligence of business owners. S.T.U.P.I.D. is an acronym for the six most common mistakes: slow implementation, too complicated, unaware of numbers, poor planning, ignoring feedback, and distracted focus. Here's how any small business owner can avoid these pitfalls.

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