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Instacart has it will be ending price testing on its platform. This comes after a published earlier this month revealed pricing experiments that led to some customers seeing higher prices than others and the last week it would be investigating the grocery delivery app.”Effective immediately, Instacart is ending all item price tests on our platform. Retailers will no longer be able to use Eversight technology to run item price tests on Instacart,” an Instacart spokesperson shared with Engadget. The blog post called out “misconceptions and misinformation,” maintaining that these price experiments were never the result of dynamic pricing and were…
Update, 12/22/25:A day after The Indie Game Awards 2025 ceremony, where Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won the coveted Game of the Year award, the team behind the show, Six One Indie, has announced that it has since retracted that award due to developer Sandfall Interactive’s use of generative AI in the game. Six One Indie has also retracted Clair Obscur’s Best Debut award for the same reason. As a result, the games in second place for those two awards are now the winners, meaning Blue Prince is the Game of the Year for The Indie Game Awards, and Sorry We’re Closed…
Watch: Images, cassettes and high-profile figures – What’s in the latest Epstein files?A pair of US lawmakers have threatened legal action against US Attorney General Pam Bondi, after her deadline to release all government files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was met only in part. The release of the Department of Justice (DoJ) documents was highly anticipated but in the end, only a portion of the available material was made public.A leading campaigner on the issue, Republican congressman Thomas Massie, said he could try to bring contempt proceedings against the attorney general as a result.The DoJ…
Liverpool striker Alexander Isak has been warned that he may never be the same again amid fears he broke his leg against Tottenham. The Sweden international had been underperforming in his first season at Anfield since his £130m move from Newcastle United in the summer transfer window. Isak scored one of his two Premier League goals on Saturday as Liverpool beat Tottenham 2-1 in north London with the Reds moving up to fifth in the Premier League table. In scoring the goal, Isak was wiped out by Tottenham defender Micky van de Ven in a late challenge with some pundits…
Generated with Google Gemini OpenAI is stepping beyond AI tools and into workforce training, launching its first formal certification program built around hands-on courses delivered through ChatGPT. The initiative is OpenAI’s most direct move yet to turn everyday AI use into verified, job-ready skills. The company said the certifications are built around hands-on training inside ChatGPT, where users learn by completing real tasks rather than watching demos. The effort is meant to give workers and educators a formal way to build AI skills. The real AI crisis According to OpenAI, AI is a workforce change that’s already in motion, with…
Paramount Skydance isn’t giving up on obtaining Warner Bros. Discovery just yet. The company has amended its $108 billion offer to include Larry Ellison’s “irrevocable personal guarantee” equaling $40.4 billion. Ellison is the founder or Oracle and a backer of Skydance, created by his son David Ellison, Paramount Skydance’s CEO.On December 17, WBD formally recommended shareholders reject Paramount’s offer. WBD had already accepted an $82.7 billion offer from Netflix, set to close some time next year following regulatory approval. “[The board] has unanimously determined that the tender offer launched by Paramount Skydance on December 8, 2025 is not in the…
Donald Trump has sparked a renewed disagreement with Denmark after appointing a special envoy to Greenland, the Arctic island he has said he would like to annex.Trump announced on Sunday that Jeff Landry, the Republican governor of Louisiana, would become the US’s special envoy to Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of the Kingdom of Denmark.Writing on social media, the US president said Landry understood how “essential Greenland is to our national security” and would advance US interests.Greenland’s prime minister said the island must “decide our own future” and its “territorial integrity must be respected”.The move angered Copenhagen, which will call the…
It was around two-and-a-half years ago when Bill Foley outlined his vision for Bournemouth to qualify for Europe, to grow out of the perennial “worry about avoiding relegation” and instead “move way up the table”. But ultimately the American businessman, who completed his takeover of the Cherries only a few months before, wanted them to become “not a stepping stone but a destination”. Since then, Bournemouth have replaced Gary O’Neil with Andoni Iraola, finished 12th and then 9th, broken their Premier League points record in consecutive seasons and threatened the very foundations upon which the elite have built. They have…
It might be hard to believe, but foldable phones have already been around for the better part of a decade. Granted, the first one I saw back in 2019 — which actually predates Samsung’s Galaxy Fold — was a cobbled-together mess. But since then, phone makers have been steadily iterating and tweaking their designs, and this year, manufacturers have finally addressed all the major issues about foldable phones except one: price.Let’s go back to the OG Fold. Even though it was chunky and heavy, had a tiny exterior display and suffered from a hinge that let too much detritus inside…
The gold price has hit another record high, trading above $4,400 (£3,275) an ounce for the first time.The price of the precious metal has risen on expectations the US central bank will cut interest rates further next year, analysts said.Gold started the year worth $2,600 an ounce, but geopolitical tensions, the Trump tariffs and expectations of rate cuts have added to investor demand for safe haven assets, such as gold and other commodities.The prices of other precious metals, such as silver and platinum, have also risen.The spot price of gold hit a high of $4,420 on Monday before slipping back.The…