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Inkoly | Istock | Getty ImagesWhen OpenAI announced its Instant Checkout feature last fall, retailers sprang into action. Etsy, Walmart and Shopify quickly lined up to let users buy merchants’ products directly within its ChatGPT chatbot. Suddenly, the e-commerce world was fixated on shopping agents, the artificial intelligence tools that can make purchases on behalf of users. Shopify President Harley Finkelstein called it the “new frontier” for online retail.Several months later, OpenAI and its retail partners have headed back to the drawing board. The AI startup is moving away from Instant Checkout and is now working with retailers to create dedicated apps…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Spanish authorities say they’ve ruled out foul play in the death of Jimmy Gracey, a 20-year-old University of Alabama junior, who vanished during a spring break trip to Barcelona after partying at the city’s famed Shoko nightclub on the Mediterranean shore early Tuesday morning.On Thursday, they recovered his body from the water in a marina just 500 feet away.Local police said Friday that an autopsy had been performed and declined to confirm local reports that investigators had obtained video showing Gracey falling into the water. While they say they believe it’s an…

After months of persistent snow, deep freezes and Arctic blasts, many Ontarians are feeling the fatigue of a winter that won’t let go. According to Global News chief meteorologist Anthony Farnell, it’s not just the cold or snowfall totals that stand out, it’s how long it’s all lasted.“It’s definitely not your imagination,” Farnell said. “It has been a long go across southern Ontario.”Snow arrived before Christmas across much of southern Ontario, followed by weeks of persistent lake-effect snowfall through January.That pattern, combined with multiple deep freezes and freezing rain, kept snow on the ground for months, with little opportunity for…

American showman Bryson DeChambeau is wowing the crowds at the inaugural LIV Golf South Africa event, with Aussie Cam Smith battling among the support cast.

Bitcoin price traded sideways throughout the day as investors switched to risk-off mode after a series of negative headlines regarding heightened geopolitical tensions and a hawkish shift in Federal Reserve sentiment. This led to a visible retreat among institutional players, who slowed their recent accumulation of spot ETFs to wait for clearer macroeconomic signals.The total crypto market cap saw a modest recovery and briefly moved above the $2.5 trillion mark before facing resistance and stabilising around $2.49 trillion. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index saw no change over the past 24 hours, remaining stuck within “Fear” levels at 31. This stagnant…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The top Senate Republican argued that while Senate Democrats may be the ones voting against reopening the government, they’re not the ones calling the shots.Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told Fox News Digital in an interview that as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown continues, it’s Democrats’ voters who are pushing them to continue blocking funding for the agency.”The Democrats up here on the Hill are so afraid of their far-left base,” Thune said. “And I think the far-left base, their demand right now, is defund ICE,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! After completing the largest comeback in the history of the first round of March Madness, No. 11 VCU head coach Phil Martelli Jr. made it a point to shout out specific journalists.Ben Rekosh, the director and on-air commentator for WVCW Sports, the school’s radio station, was in the middle of asking a question to Martelli about their comeback over No. 6 UNC when Martelli interrupted.”I am gonna shout you guys out. I know there’s a lot of professional media, our student media, the best in the country. They are unreal. Unreal, unreal,”…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A popular Florida spring break destination has declared a state of emergency stemming from several days of chaos leading to over 100 arrests. Additionally, five shootings were reported throughout Volusia County over the same timeframe. The City of Daytona Beach issued the declaration, along with a 7-day overnight curfew for minors, in response to several recent incidents involving spring breakers wreaking havoc on the area, according to FOX 35. “Daytona Beach should no longer position itself as a Spring Break destination,” Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young said. “It is not a decision against tourism,…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario says it is moving ahead with a plan to ban the resale of tickets for more than their original cost, effectively reinstating measures the Liberals had teed up before the Ford government cancelled them in 2018. The province announced Friday that it is preparing legislative changes that would make it illegal to resell tickets for profit, a policy Premier Doug Ford mused about when the Toronto Blue Jays made their historic run to the World Series.“With these new measures, consumers would no longer need to worry about being ripped-off in the…