2025-12-12
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The White House said that an oil tanker it seized off the coast of Venezuela would be sent to an American port where the vessel's cargo will be obtained by following a,
quote, legal process.
Meanwhile,
the administration imposed sanctions on six Venezuelan oil companies as well as three family members of Nicolás Maduro,
the country's autocrat, who Mr Trump accuses of narco-terrorism.
Disney and Open AI struck a $1 billion licensing agreement,
the largest deal yet between a media group and an artificial intelligence company.
Disney will take a stake in the developer of ChatGPT in exchange
for allowing OpenAI to feature more than 200 characters in its AI products.
These include OpenAI's Chatbot and Sora, a short-form video platform.
The two companies also agreed to build tools together.
An experimental weight loss shot developed by Eli Lilly helped patients lose almost a quarter of their body weight.
The late stage results would make it the most potent yet.