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Apple announced a new API called Advanced Commerce API, which supports more in -app purchases, including subscriptions and content add -ons. The company added that we are not going to change the commission system to support these use cases. “The App Store promotes billions of transactions a year to grow business and provide world -class customer experience. Very large -scale content catalogs, creator experience, and optional add -ons. Introducing the Advanced Commission API to further support the business models that develop developers, such as subscriptions, will be introduced in the announcement. Image credit: Apple Apple explained in the attached support…

U.S. authorities have indicted five people for their alleged roles in a multiyear scheme to obtain remote IT jobs from dozens of U.S. companies. The Justice Department announced Thursday the indictment of North Korean nationals Chin Song Il and Park Jin Sung. Mexico's Pedro Ernesto Alonso de los Reyes, Americans Eric Ntekeleze Prince and Emmanuel Astor. The Justice Department said the FBI arrested Mr. Ntekelese and Mr. Asutol and raided Mr. Asutol's home in North Carolina for the wraps provided by the company to make it appear that the company employed U.S.-based workers. It said it had found evidence of…

Tata Electronics has acquired a 60% controlling stake in Pegatron, the Indian arm of Apple Assembly Partner, as the conglomation expands iPhone manufacturing capacity in the country. Taiwan-based Pegatron operates an iPhone production factory near Chennai in India's sour state of Tamil Nadu. The deal comes less than a year after Tata Electronics acquired the Indian operations of smartphone assembly company Wistron. Pegatron and Tata did not disclose the financial terms of the deal, but Tata said the acquisition fits into its strategy to expand its manufacturing footprint in the country. “We look forward to nurturing these new facilities, expanding…

Seattle -based Madron Capital celebrates a 30 -year business by raising a $ 770 billion of $ 770 million. This is the largest financing so far, exceeding $ 690 million in two funds closed by Madrona in 2022. The excitement of an 11 % capital pool may not seem to be important, but the increase in the increase in the number of venture costumes to reduce funding is the company's prospects and recent achievements. It is a sign of being excited. Matt Macilwayne, Madron's management director, told TechCrunch that last year it was useful to sell some portfolio companies and…

President Donald Trump on Thursday proposed federal regulations for “digital assets,” including virtual currencies, digital tokens and stablecoins, and ordered the creation of a task force to assess the nation's crypto stockpiles. The task force will be led by David Sachs, former PayPal chief operating officer and founder of VC firm Craft Ventures, whom President Trump named the “emperor” of cryptocurrencies and AI. The group also includes the Treasury Secretary, Attorney General, Secretary of Commerce, and other government officials. President Trump’s latest executive order, titled “Strengthening U.S. Leadership in Digital Financial Technology,” comes as the Securities and Exchange Commission, currently…

OpenAI says it may store chats and related screenshots from customers using Operator, its AI “agent” tool, for up to 90 days even after users manually delete them. OpenAI has a similar deleted data retention policy for its AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT. However, ChatGPT's retention period is only 30 days, which is 60 days less than Operator's retention period. OpenAI says the operator's data retention policies are designed to combat abuse. “As agents are a relatively new technology, we wanted to ensure our team had time to better understand and consider potential exploitation vectors,” an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch. “This…

YouTube celebrity MrBeast (real name Jimmy Donaldson) is in talks to join multiple bids for TikTok's U.S. operations. But he hasn't picked just one yet. First, on Monday, Employer.com CEO Jesse Tinsley said MrBeast is part of an all-cash bid for TikTok that he is leading. This was reiterated in a press release issued by the law firm representing Tinsley's group. But Matthew Hiltzik, a spokesman for Mr.Beast, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Donaldson is in “ongoing discussions” with multiple bidders, but has not signed an “exclusive” contract with any of them. He said it was not tied.…

In a well-timed announcement that was perhaps intended to draw attention away from OpenAI's Operators, Anthropic Tuesday announced a new feature for its developer API called Citations. This allows developers to “root” answers from the Claude family of AI into source documents such as emails. According to Anthropic, Citations allows AI models to provide detailed references to the “exact sentences and passages” of documents used to generate responses. As of Thursday afternoon, Citations is available in both Anthropic's API and Google's Vertex AI platform. As Anthropic explains in a blog post about citations, developers can add source files so that…

While Meta lures TikTok creators to Instagram and Facebook with cash bonuses, its X competitor, Instagram Threads, is currently catering to creators, brands, and others who need more specialized tools to manage their presence on the app. Making other people's work easier. On Thursday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced a handful of new features coming to Threads, including ways to schedule posts and see more metrics within Insights. In a post on the social network, Mosseri shared that users can now schedule posts in threads and view metrics for individual posts within the Insights dashboard. This provides Threads users with…

Autograph, the NFT company co-founded by Tom Brady, is merging with digital fitness company Future. As part of the merger, Mr. Brady will join Future's board of directors and serve as co-chairman. Brady co-founded Autograph in 2021 to find a way to connect athletes and artists with their fans, and eventually launched an NFT marketplace, raising more than $200 million worth a total of $3.1 billion, according to Pitchbook. It is said that they have procured the following. Late last year, the company removed the NFT component and relaunched itself as a platform that tracks and rewards fan engagement. The…