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. Stay Connected Forbes Breaking News on X: https://x.com/ForbesTVNews Forbes Breaking News on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@forbestvnews More From Forbes: http://forbes.com

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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. 00:00 Tesla’s Rocky Start To 2026 And The Shift To Batteries 02:41 Dominating The United States Stationary Storage Market 04:57 Leveraging Manufacturing Power For Solar And Energy 08:02 The Legacy Of SolarCity And The Failed Solar Roof 11:00 Challenges Of Scaling To One Hundred Gigawatts 12:34 Replacing Lost Revenue From EV Sales And Tax Credits 14:13 Future Outlook For New Battery Plants And Chemistries Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2026/03/12/teslas-best-growth-story-isnt-robotaxis-its-batteries/

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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.

KEY FACTS

• Trump said in a Truth Social post he will sign an order instructing Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin “to immediately pay our TSA Agents.”
• The president blamed Democrats for the lapse in pay for agents, blasting their demands for increased restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
• Trump did not elaborate where the money to pay TSA agents would come from.
• More than 450 TSA officers have quit their jobs amid the shutdown after not receiving pay.

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.

KEY BACKGROUND

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.

Read the full story on Forbes: ByAntonio Pequeño IV,Forbes Staff. https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/03/26/trump-will-issue-order-to-pay-tsa-agents-amid-airport-chaos/

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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. Read the full story on Forbes: ByAntonio Pequeño IV

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

KEY FACTS

• The rejected offer, first reported by CBS News, would have provided money for TSA agents who have gone without pay for nearly six weeks.
• Musk made the offer last weekend in a post on X, with President Trump telling reporters Monday he would “love it.”
• White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Forbes that while the White House appreciated Musk’s proposal, it “would pose great legal challenges due to his involvement with federal government contracts.” 
• Jackson said the fastest way to pay TSA employees is for “Democrats to fund the Department of Homeland Security,” referring to disagreements between Democrats and Republicans over a standalone funding bill that would fund DHS and the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which will create changes to the U.S. voting system including a requirement for voter identification.
• The cost to fund TSA agents would be around $250 million, CBS reported, citing two unnamed sources.

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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.

KEY FACTS

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%.

Read the full story on Forbes: By Conor Murray https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/03/26/wall-street-bonuses-surged-to-a-record-492-billion-pool-last-year/

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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.

Key Facts

• Meta and Google are liable to pay $3 million in damages to the plaintiff, only identified as a 20-year-old woman named K.G.M., who said she became addicted to the two companies’ apps due to addictive features.
• Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, was ordered to pay out 70% of the damages, while YouTube was ordered to pay the remaining 30%, the Wall Street Journal reported.
• The lawsuit also named TikTok and Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, as defendants, but both companies settled out of court for undisclosed sums.
• Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram chief Adam Mosseri both testified at the trial, where Zuckerberg insisted the company was “building this thing to be a good thing that has value in people’s lives,” Courthouse News reported in February.
• “We respectfully disagree with the verdict and are evaluating our legal options,” Meta spokesperson Francis Brennan told Forbes in a statement, while Google spokesperson José Castañeda said in a separate statement the company disagrees with the verdict and plans to appeal, adding, “this case misunderstands YouTube, which is a responsibly built streaming platform, not a social media site.”
• The verdict did not appear to impact stock prices, Meta shares up slightly (0.46%) and Google parent Alphabet’s down slightly (0.3%).

Read the full story on Forbes: By Zachary Folk https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/03/25/meta-and-google-found-liable-in-social-media-addiction-trial/

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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. Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more: https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.

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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. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/03/24/meta-must-pay-375-million-over-allegedly-enabling-child-exploitation/

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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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Welcome to the premiere episode of Iconoclast with Maneet Ahuja!

For the first ever Forbes Iconoclast podcast, host and Forbes Editor-at-Large Maneet Ahuja sits down with legendary investor Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates—the world’s largest hedge fund. Recorded live at the NASDAQ market site, Dalio issues an urgent, unvarnished warning about the global economic landscape and the future of wealth.

Dalio also discusses his latest book, How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle, which aims to convey the mechanics of the process behind why countries go broke and unveils the leadership strategy to which he attributes his firm's outsized success.

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