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Jimmy Kimmel returns to the air tonight. Nearly a week after Disney yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air indefinitely amid backlash over the host’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s accused murderer, the late-night show will return to ABC tonight. The company said yesterday it had made the decision to pull the show “because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive,” and that it had “spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy” before deciding to bring the show back. While President Trump and some conservatives praised Disney’s choice to remove the show after the head of the FCC and affiliate station owners took issue with Kimmel’s remarks, many in the entertainment business, Democrats, and even some Republicans criticized it as censorship, especially given the pressure from the FCC. ABC affiliate-owner Sinclair said yesterday it would continue to preempt the program amid “ongoing” discussions with ABC about the show’s return.
Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI for data centers. Talk about customer service: The chipmaker has agreed to sink up to $100 billion into the ChatGPT-maker to help it expand its AI infrastructure. But Nvidia is not just looking out for a fellow AI giant; the deal also ensures that Nvidia is a “preferred” supplier for OpenAI for chips and networking gear, the companies said. The investment will happen progressively as the infrastructure gets built, with the intention of OpenAI setting up data centers with a capacity of 10 gigawatts of power (which is more than it takes to power 8 million homes, per the Wall Street Journal) and using Nvidia’s advanced chips for OpenAI’s models. “This is a giant project,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC.
SCOTUS will mull the president’s power to fire independent agency officials. For now, the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump can fire the Federal Trade Commission’s sole remaining Democratic commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, while it considers her legal challenge to her ouster (the liberal justices dissented). In weighing the case, the high court will hear arguments in December over whether a 90-year-old precedent barring the president from axing agency officials without cause should be overturned for infringing on the executive branch’s power.—AR
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