OMAHA – and its controlling stockholder, Warren E. Buffett, reported the sale of a significant block of DaVita Inc. (NASDAQ:DVA) common stock. The transaction, which occurred on May 1, 2026, involved the disposition of 1,220,376 shares, totaling approximately $182.8 million. The shares were sold at a price of $149.8429 per share. Following this transaction, Berkshire…
Apple agreed on Tuesday to pay $250 million to settle legal claims that it misled consumers about the abilities of its artificial intelligence system, Apple Intelligence, according to court filings. The settlement resolves a handful of class action lawsuits filed against Apple last year, which claimed the company oversold what its product could do during…
“Man on Fire” was the most-watched TV series on Netflix during the week of April 27 to May 3, racking up 11 million views in its first four days of availability after its April 30 premiere. The Charlize Theron-led thriller “Apex” was the most-watched title across all of Netflix that week, leading the film chart…
A California tax preparer pleaded guilty yesterday to fraudulently including false information on federal income tax returns to get substantial refunds for his clients – and cause large tax losses to the U.S. Treasury – and COVID-19 business-relief loan applications to obtain money he used for unauthorized purposes. Kerwin Aldric Jordan, 71, of Castaic, California…
Kanye West has been hit with more than a dozen copyright infringement lawsuits over his controversial career. Now one has reached a jury, with the artist now known as Ye expected to testify later this week. On Monday, a panel of eight jurors heard opening statements in a federal courtroom in downtown Los Angeles. From…
Older actresses aren’t bankable? The blockbuster era for traditional comedies is over, with streaming having siphoned away the audience? Meryl Streep, 76, stepped back into Miranda Priestly’s sky-high heels over the weekend and demolished those Hollywood orthodoxies. “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” an old-fashioned workplace comedy, collected roughly $77 million at theaters in North America…
The Archdiocese of New York has proposed an $800 million settlement to resolve some 1,300 abuse claims involving clergy and staff brought under lookback laws in that state. If accepted, the settlement would cap a five-year legal battle that has seen the archdiocese sell off property, while taking insurance giant Chubb to court over coverage for the claims. In a May 1…
Scientists have uncovered new clues about how crabs developed their distinctive sideways movement. A new study, released as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, brings together the largest dataset yet on how crabs move. By comparing many species, the researchers traced this unusual walking style back to a shared ancestor that lived roughly 200 million years…
One of this year’s biggest fights over the future of regulation of the artificial-intelligence industry is about to get even more expensive and contentious. Chris Larsen, a tech billionaire from California, said he planned to spend $3.5 million in the coming weeks to help a New York congressional candidate who is facing a barrage of…
A Texas man pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of criminal conspiracy related to misbranding volatile alkyl nitrites, known by their street name as “poppers,” and selling them as inhalants in violation of federal law. Although the labeling for poppers products often misleadingly claims they are sold as cleaning agents, poppers are commonly misused for…
