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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 Nicolas 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.

The drug retututide is also designed to reduce knee pain from osteoarthritis, a condition

linked with obesity.

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