Sam’s Club has deployed its exit tech, which uses computer vision to check members’ purchases against their receipts, at 120+ locations, or 20% of its stores (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sam’s Club has deployed its exit tech, which uses computer vision to check members’ purchases against their receipts, at 120+ locations, or 20% of its stores  —  Amazon may be scaling back its AI-powered Just Walk Out checkout-free tech in its stores in favor of smart shopping carts …

IBM wins a court decision overturning $1.6B in damages it was ordered to pay BMC in 2022 for swapping in its own software while servicing a mutual client, AT&T (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)

Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:
IBM wins a court decision overturning $1.6B in damages it was ordered to pay BMC in 2022 for swapping in its own software while servicing a mutual client, AT&T  —  – Appeals court says IBM won BMC’s client ‘fair and square’  — Judgment in 2022 was one of the largest-ever of its kind

Coinbase adds support for the Bitcoin Lightning Network via payments startup Lightspark, letting customers transfer bitcoin faster and at a lower cost (Derek Andersen/Cointelegraph)

Derek Andersen / Cointelegraph:
Coinbase adds support for the Bitcoin Lightning Network via payments startup Lightspark, letting customers transfer bitcoin faster and at a lower cost  —  The integration brings instantaneous transfers on the layer-2 Lightning Network to the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchange.  —  Total views

AMD reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $5.47B, vs. $5.46B est., Data Center revenue up 80% YoY to $2.3B, and a $123M net income, up from a $139M net loss YoY (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
AMD reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $5.47B, vs. $5.46B est., Data Center revenue up 80% YoY to $2.3B, and a $123M net income, up from a $139M net loss YoY  —  Lisa Su, president and CEO of AMD, talks about the AMD EPYC processor during a keynote address at the 2019 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., January 9, 2019.

A screenshot seems to show TikTok circumventing Apple’s App Store fees by showing some users a link to a site for buying digital coins, instead of using IAPs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
A screenshot seems to show TikTok circumventing Apple’s App Store fees by showing some users a link to a site for buying digital coins, instead of using IAPs  —  TikTok may be routing around the App Store to save money on commissions.  According to new findings, the ByteDance-owned social video app …