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[ad_1] Brendan Carr didn’t order ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel, but the Federal Communications Commission chair got the outcome he wanted.Kimmel, a late-night host who’s long criticized and mocked President Donald Trump, had his namesake show on ABC suspended “indefinitely” after his comments about Charlie Kirk, the right-wing influencer who was killed in public last week.Carr, a Trump appointee, suggested on a conservative podcast on Wednesday that owners of local broadcast stations that license ABC programming should pressure the network to cancel Kimmel. He said broadcasters who don’t act “in the public interest” could get their licenses reviewed.Hours after Carr’s…

[ad_1] The iconic talk show host decried Kimmel’s suspension during an appearance Thursday at The Atlantic Festival 2025 in New York.”This is misery,” Letterman said, discussing the suspension at length with the interview host and editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.”We see where this is all going, correct? It’s managed media. And it’s no good. It’s silly. It’s ridiculous. And you can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.”In his 30-year career as a talk show host, Letterman…

[ad_1] 2025-09-18T21:14:30Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Olivia Nuzzi is joining Vanity Fair after leaving New York magazine last year amid controversy. Nuzzi was placed on leave in the fall of 2024, following a relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A review found no bias in her work, but New York magazine said the relationship…

[ad_1] Tech giant Huawei unveiled new AI infrastructure meant to help boost compute power and allow the company to better compete with rival chipmaker Nvidia.   At a keynote at its Huawei Connect conference on Thursday, Shenzhen, China-based Huawei announced new SuperPoD Interconnect technology that can link together up to 15,000 graphics cards, including Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, to increase compute power.  This tech seems to be a competitor for Nvidia’s NVLink infrastructure, which facilitates high-speed communication between AI chips.   Technology like this is critical for Huawei to better compete with semiconductors like Nvidia’s. While Huawei’s AI chips are less powerful than Nvidia’s, being able to cluster them together will give its users access to more compute power, which is needed for training and scaling AI systems.   This news also comes just a day after China banned domestic tech companies from buying Nvidia’s hardware,…

[ad_1] Google Cloud announced Thursday it has added fast-rising AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf to its roster of customers. Both companies have chosen Google Cloud as their primary cloud computing provider, the latest sign of Google’s rising prominence against larger rivals AWS and Microsoft Azure. The deals also highlight Google’s efforts to make its cloud business more central to the company’s future. Today, Google Cloud is overshadowed by larger competitors like AWS and Microsoft, as well as Google’s much larger advertising business. But it is seeing upward momentum. Google Cloud is one of the company’s fastest-growing business lines. On…

[ad_1] In a significant endorsement of Intel’s turnaround process, Nvidia is making a $5 billion investment in another chipmaker.Intel has faced years of dwindling market share and revenues despite the US government’s intervention to help it build chip factories. On Thursday, it got perhaps the most impactful endorsement in the world of semiconductors — that of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.”We’re delighted to have invested in Intel, and the return on that investment is going to be fantastic,” Huang said at a Thursday press conference.As part of this partnership, Intel will incorporate Nvidia graphics processing unit (GPU) technology, used for powering AI applications, into its…

[ad_1] Top tech names were on the guest list for the banquet thrown for President Trump during his second state visit to the U.K. on Wednesday.  The banquet seating chart included Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang; Apple CEO Tim Cook; venture capitalist and White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks; Alphabet and Google president Ruth Porat; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff; and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, according to the New York Times. On Thursday, the U.S. and U.K. signed a partnership called the Tech Prosperity Deal to focus on developing nuclear, AI, and quantum technologies. Google, Microsoft, Nvidia,…

[ad_1] Jimmy Kimmel is off the air, and his show’s abrupt suspension has put a spotlight on the fraught politics of the broadcast TV business — and the billions of dollars at stake.The late-night host’s show was pulled from ABC on Wednesday after Kimmel made comments about Charlie Kirk’s death. The comments had drawn the ire of Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr, who said in an interview earlier that day that the FCC might need to place broadcast licenses under review to ensure stations were operating “in the public interest.”Carr’s comments were bad news for local TV operators who…

[ad_1] This week, President Donald Trump is living out his “What a Girl Wants” fantasy and visiting the UK.He’s attended various events, the most glamorous of which — and likely his most anticipated — was a state dinner at Windsor Castle that included some of the richest and most powerful people in the world, as well as a couple of seemingly random athletes.While we’ll have to wait for the 2035 season of “The Crown” to know what really went down over cognac and watercress panna cotta, the seating chart left much to the imagination. Business Insider’s Katie Notopoulos and Maddie Berg discuss.…

[ad_1] At the “Make with Notion” event on Thursday, the company announced the launch of its first AI agent. The agent will draw on all a user’s notion pages and database as context, automatically generating notes and analysis for meetings, competitor evaluation reports, and feedback landing pages. The productivity platform said that the agent can create pages and databases, or update them with new data, properties, or views. Users can also trigger Notion agents from outside platforms that are linked to the service. For instance, you can ask Notion agent to create a bug tracking dashboard from various sources, including…