YouTube is in talks to offer select creators millions in payments if they keep their videos exclusively on its platform for a set period, two people familiar with its efforts told Business Insider. The move is a direct shot at Netflix, which has been ramping up its licensing of creator videos for its platform. Bloomberg’s
McALLEN, Texas — A small Texas law firm with ties to the Trump administration declined a $150 million federal contract it was offered to represent migrant children traveling alone to the U.S., authorities said Wednesday, raising long-term questions about who would represent them. The administration last week announced plans to award the contract to the
Julie Andrews recently told InStyle magazine that she is not returning for “The Princess Diaries 3” opposite Anne Hathaway. The 90-year-old icon turned down the offer to reprise her role of Queen Clarisse in the movie, which will serve as a long-awaited sequel to 2001’s “The Princess Diaries” and 2004’s “Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.”
OpenAI has bought back $7 billion worth of shares from employees at the privately held frontier AI lab as part of an effort to provide liquidity to its workforce. The deal, reported by Bloomberg, valued OpenAI at $852 billion, the same as its most recent fundraising round in March, which added $122 billion to the
PayPal is apparently still open to Stripe’s $53.4 billion takeover bid, but not at the price Stripe had offered. On the company’s second-quarter 2026 earnings conference call on Tuesday, PayPal CEO Enrique Lores did not completely rule out the idea of a deal, saying the company would consider a path that creates “superior value” for
A needle approaches an egg (purple) during in vitro fertilization, which some clinics offer in combination with a procedure called mitochondrial replacement therapy. Credit: Zephyr/Scientific Photo Library A small number of fertility clinics around the world are offering a controversial treatment: a procedure to provide clients’ embryos with donated mitochondria as a way to increase