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Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Monday became the fourth Big Tech powerhouse to be valued at $4 trillion, a once seemingly unfathomable milestone that's become more like a rite of passage amid an artificial intelligence arms race.

The College Sports Commission has rejected nearly $15 million in name, image, likeness agreements since it started evaluating them over the summer, representing more than 10% of the value of all the deals it has analyzed and closed.

After lawmakers blunted expansion for years, Texas' medical marijuana industry is slated to see more marijuana operators coming online, current ones opening more facilities and more Texans enrolling in the program this year.

A real estate gamble gone sideways has hollowed out more than a third of the apartment buildings in Palmer Park.

A top aide to Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides has resigned after an online video was posted recently in which it was suggested that he and others were using their close ties to the leader to earn favors for would-be investors in exchange for . ...

President Donald Trump has dramatically escalated his confrontation with the Federal Reserve. His Justice Department is investigating and threatening a criminal indictment of the independent central bank and serving it with subpoenas.

Apple will lean on Google to help finish its bungled attempts to smarten up its virtual assistant Siri and bring other artificial intelligence features to the iPhone as the trendsetting company plays catch up in technology's latest craze.

Multiple monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis. And AI generated images are complicating the effort to find them.

Jerome Powell isn't the first high-profile official to find himself targeted by the Justice Department since Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Arizona has tightened its hold on the top spot in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll after Michigan's loss to Wisconsin.