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Umar Shakir / The Verge: YouTube reaches a deal with SESAC that will bring back songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, and others that were removed over the weekend in the US  —  YouTube has reached a deal with the music licensing organization SESAC that will bring back songs that were removed over the weekend.

Matthew Lynley / Supervised: A look at OpenAI's sprawling product portfolio as the startup matures into a real business and runs into the challenges of avoiding product creep  —  Plus: OpenAI's portfolio is getting a little big.  —  ∙ Paid  —  This issue was finished on a mobile device so I apologize ahead of time for any typos and formatting errors.

Jem Aswad / Variety: YouTube blocks songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, and others in the US, after its music licensing agreement with performing rights organization SESAC expired  —  Songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, R.E.M., Burna Boy, Rush and many others are currently unplayable on YouTube in the U.S. due …

Alex Perry / Bloomberg: Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth has climbed almost sixfold to $200B+ in less than two years, buoyed by Meta's record-high share price, which is up 60%+ YTD  —  - Meta CEO's wealth has jumped sixfold in the past two years  — Shares of Meta are trading near record high, up 60% this year

Steven Levy / Wired: Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and Executive Chairman of Anduril, on autonomous AI's role in warfare, building a wearable e-reader, and more  —  He's deep in the defense-startup world as a Founders Fund partner and Anduril cofounder.  His bunker, though, isn't fully prepped for the end times.

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their friend-finding and community-building products to attract young users hit by so-called dating app fatigue  —  Bumble and Match Group launch friendship and social products to help reverse post-pandemic slowdown

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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

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.

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 …

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.

Bloomberg: Sources: China is discouraging local companies from purchasing Nvidia's H20 chips to help expand the country's semiconductor industry and counter US sanctions  —  - Nvidia can only sell slower AI chips to China due to US curbs  — Beijing is fostering domestic champions like Huawei, Cambricon

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: The US DOJ charges two Russians for operating $1B+ money laundering services for cybercriminals; one is accused of operating the Joker's Stash marketplace  —  The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced charges against two Russian nationals for operating billion-dollar money laundering services …

New York Times: Docs: OpenAI had $300M in monthly revenue in August, up 1,700% since early 2023, 350M MAUs in June, and expects ~$3.7B in annual sales but $5B in losses in 2024  —  As the company looks for more outside investors, documents reviewed by The New York Times show consumer fascination with ChatGPT and a serious need for more cash.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Kaspersky confirms that it has replaced the antivirus software on its US customers' computers with software called UltraAV, owned by American company Pango  —  Earlier this week, some U.S. customers of Kaspersky's antivirus were surprised to find out that the Russian-made software disappeared …

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Mango DAO, Mango Labs, and Blockworks Foundation agree to destroy MNGO tokens and ask crypto exchanges to stop trading them as part of an SEC settlement  —  Mango DAO, Mango Labs and Blockworks Foundation agreed to settle charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Friday.

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google rolls out Gemini-powered contextual Smart Replies, which analyzes the context of an email and suggests a detailed reply, in Gmail for paid users  —  Following the announcement at I/O 2024, Google is now rolling out Contextual Smart Replies to Gmail for Android and iOS.

Emma Roth / The Verge: Steam changes its subscriber agreement, removing its forced arbitration policy and allowing gamers to take legal action against its parent company Valve  —  Steam just removed its forced arbitration policy, opening the door for lawsuits against its parent company, Valve.

Washington Post: Neo-Nazis are creating AI videos of Hitler making English versions of his speeches and to rebrand him as “misunderstood” via TikTok, X, Instagram, and YouTube  —  Videos of the Nazi leader speaking in English are reaching millions online.  Experts fear they are fueling a surge of antisemitism.