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A federal appeals court handed Apple a victory and a loss in the company’s long-running legal battle with Epic Games.
The court ruled that a district court judge must consider allowing Apple to collect a commission on transactions made outside its App Store, though not the 27% commission it used to charge, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Dec. 11).
The district court banned all commissions...
On Thursday (Dec. 11), The Walt Disney Company announced a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and a groundbreaking three-year licensing agreement that will allow the artificial intelligence firm’s Sora video model to generate short fan-created clips using more than 200 Disney-owned characters, settings and worlds.
This is more than a creative collaboration; it’s a new intellectual...
DoorDash and Uber have sued to block a New York City law that requires delivery platforms to ask consumers to tip at checkout, instead of after the delivery, and to display the amounts of a suggested tip.
“A reminder to tip is a courtesy, a forced solicitation of a tip may as well be a tax,” DoorDash said in a Thursday (Dec. 11) blog post announcing the lawsuit.
The company added in...
OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-5.2, saying the new model is designed for professional knowledge work and unlocks “even more economic value for people.”
GPT-5.2 is better than its predecessors at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools and handling multistep projects, the company said in a Thursday (Dec....
The age-old desire to automate online work is driving a new arms race in Silicon Valley: the agentic browser.
With today’s (Dec. 11) launch of Opera’s Neon artificial intelligence (AI) browser, available for $20 a month, the field of competitors is expanding, promising an AI assistant that can browse, click, and reason on a user’s behalf. These new tools, like Neon’s ability to analyze...
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Pinterest plans to extend its performance advertising capabilities to connected TV (CTV) by acquiring CTV performance advertising platform tvScientific.
The company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire tvScientific and, subject to regulatory review and other customary conditions, it expects the transaction to close in the first half of 2026, Pinterest said in a Thursday (...
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has launched a partnership with platform Chainlink.
This collaboration will see Coinbase use Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the exclusive bridging solution for all Coinbase Wrapped Assets, allowing cross-chain transfers and expansion, the companies said in a news release Thursday (Dec. 11).
Those assets, which include cbBTC...
JPMorgan has successfully arranged a U.S. commercial paper issuance on the Solana blockchain.
The issuance, performed for Galaxy Digital Holdings and purchased by Coinbase and Franklin Templeton, marks one of the earliest debt issuances ever executed on a public blockchain, the banking giant said in a Thursday (Dec. 11) news release.
It’s also one of the first debt issuances in the U.S...
When one thinks of retail competition, the battle between eCommerce and brick-and-mortar is typically what leaps to mind.
Traditionally, Amazon has been the eCommerce landscape’s leading representative, and Walmart the flag bearer for traditional physical shopping. But 25-plus years into the 21st century, that framing has come to feel almost quaint.
Walmart’s decision Tuesday (Dec. 9)...