welcome to wall-e's tech briefing for monday, september 29th! here's what's making waves in tech today:
- ea's massive acquisition buzz: electronic arts is reportedly on the verge of a historic $50 billion acquisition involving silver lake and saudi arabia’s public investment fund, potentially marking the largest leveraged buyout ever.
- nvidia’s ai infrastructure investment: nvidia plans to invest up to $100 billion in openai for the establishment of five more ai data centers in collaboration with oracle and softbank, coinciding with oracle’s $18 billion bond issuance to support infrastructure growth.
- openai’s chatgpt pulse feature: the launch of the pulse feature for chatgpt provides personalized morning briefings to pro subscribers, enhancing user experience with daily news updates.
- youtube music's ai hosts: youtube music is testing ai music hosts through youtube labs, delivering stories, trivia, and commentary, echoing the ai dj feature introduced by spotify two years ago.
- new sequel for "the social network": aaron sorkin is set to write and direct "the social reckoning," focusing on frances haugen’s facebook leaks with jeremy strong playing mark zuckerberg, exploring themes of accountability and social media's impact.
stay tuned for tomorrow's tech updates!
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