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Brian Steinberg / Variety: Sources: Amazon Prime Video is in talks with veteran anchor Brian Williams to host a live Election Night special, its first entry into news-related programming  —  Brian Williams may have found his next TV-news job….except it won’t be on traditional TV.  —  The veteran NBC News … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ricardo Brito / Reuters: Court docs: Brazil’s Supreme Court say X still needs to pay $5M+ in pending fines, including a new one, before it will be allowed to resume service in Brazil  —  Brazil’s Supreme Court said on Friday that social platform X still needs to pay just over $5 million in pending fines … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources: TSMC’s execs took to calling Sam Altman a “podcasting bro” after he said it would take $7T and many years to build 36 chip plants to fulfill his vision  —  Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, is talking to the United Arab Emirates, Asian chipmakers and U.S. officials … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: OpenAI expects its revenue to grow to $11.6B in 2025; ChatGPT has 10M paying users and could bring in $2.7B in revenue in 2024, up from $700M in 2023  —  Thrive Capital is investing more than $1 billion of OpenAI’s current $6.5 billion fundraising round, and it has a sweetener … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Toby Sterling / Reuters: SEMI: China is projected to invest $100B+ on chipmaking equipment from 2025 to 2027, followed by South Korea at $81B, Taiwan at $75B, and the Americas at $63B  —  Semiconductor manufacturers will spend a record $400 billion on computer chip-making equipment in 2025-2027 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lizzi C. Lee / Rest of World: Chinese state media has embraced the success of Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese AAA game that has sold 20M+ copies globally, hailing it as a soft power export  —  China is changing its long-critical stance thanks to the smash hit, according to Chinese game developers and industry analysts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: A look at telehealth startup Done Global, whose owner was arrested by the US in June for allegedly running a “pill mill”, as it continues to operate from China  —  The owner of Silicon Valley’s Done Global was arrested, but the telehealth company’s staff in China still provides easy access to stimulants for Americans Lees verder op Tech Meme

Curtis Heinzl / Bloomberg: The demand for the X100 series of point-and-shoot digital cameras has driven big profits for Fujifilm after the X100V went viral on TikTok in September 2022  —  TikTok’s love of the Fujifilm X100V has driven big profits for the Japanese company, which initially struggled to compete in the digital era. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Source: Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round that is expected to raise as much as $6.5B  —  Company behind ChatGPT is aiming to raise around $6.5 billion in funding set to close next week  —  Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round expected … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Knibbs / Wired: A profile of Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, as the service fights existential battles over copyright, including from music labels like UMG  —  The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive.  Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away. Lees verder op Tech Meme