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For actors, its the Golden Globes. Musicians, its the Grammys. Now, content creators have their own award to aspire to. Introducing Instagram Rings. As social medias place in the entertainment ecosystem grows, the new award program from Instagram is meant to honor those creatives who dont just participate in culture – but shift it, break through whatever barrier holds them back to realize their ambitions, according to a blog post about the launch. Judged by a panel of creatives spanning fashion and makeup to sports and entertainment, each nominated their own longlist of favorite creators and voted on which 25 of Instagrams three billion users will be among the first to receive the honor. The panel includes Instagram chief Adam Mosseri, filmmaker Spike Lee, designers Marc Jacobs and Grace Wales Bonner, tech influencer Marques Brownlee, and others. As well as a physical ring designed by Wales Bonner, the winners also received a unique digital golden ring for their Instagram profile and Stories. When we thought about how to bring this to life, we wanted winners to be celebrated in a way thats uniquely Instagram, the blog post explained. We know the profile is an important space for creators to show who they are and what theyre about – so when winners post a story, an exclusive gold ring will show up around their profile picture, in place of the usual Stories ring. The soon-to-be-announced winners will also have a chance to customize their profile backdrop color and show off their creativity with their own twist on the like button. The photo sharing platform has been busy this year, dropping new features at breakneck speed. Just this year, theres been the Blend feature launch, followed by the Maps feature, the Schools feature. Instagram is also rolling out the first official iPad app. Most recently came the news that Reels may soon become the new default tab upon opening the app. But as the platform leans into Content with a capital C, with the ability to post a simple photo now obfuscated with endless customization options, the app has come a long way from when a grainy snap of your morning coffee was worthy of a main grid post.
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A group of countries that are part of the OPEC+ alliance of oil-exporting countries has agreed to a small boost in oil production, citing a steady global economic outlook. The group said after a virtual meeting on Sunday that it will raise oil production by 137,000 barrels per day in November, the same amount it announced for October. The group has been raising output slightly in a series of boosts all year, after announcing cuts in 2023 and 2024. In a statement, the group said the move was due to a steady global economic outlook and current healthy market fundamentals. It added the production adjustments may be paused or reversed as market conditions evolve. Saudi Arabia holds significant influence in OPEC+ as the dominant member of the OPEC producers cartel, and Russia is the leading non-OPEC member in the 22-country alliance. Along with Saudi Arabia and Russia, the group that met Sunday is made up of Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria, and Oman. Their next meeting is scheduled for Nov. 2.
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The AI arms race turned a new page on Monday, as OpenAI and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced that the two have agreed to a new partnership to create new data centers powered by AMDs chips. The deal could also see OpenAI take a roughly 10% stake in AMD. Specifically, the partnership sees OpenAI committing to buying 6 gigawatts of AMD GPU chips, with the initial gigawatt deployment scheduled for the second half of 2026. The deal will ultimately see OpenAI deploy the remaining gigawatts over multiple years and multiple hardware generations. The deal also sees AMD issuing a warrant for as many as 160 million shares of AMD stock to OpenAI. Those shares are structured to vest in the event that specific milestones are achieved, the company said. The deal was a hit on Wall Street, as AMD shares hit the stratosphereat the market open on Monday, shares briefly topped $220.44, an increase of more than 34% from pre-trading. As of roughly 11 am ET, however, shares had fallen slightly but were still up more than 27%. This partnership is a major step in building the compute capacity needed to realize AIs full potential, said Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, in a company release. AMDs leadership in high-performance chips will enable us to accelerate progress and bring the benefits of advanced AI to everyone faster. AMDs leadership echoed the sentiment. We are thrilled to partner with OpenAI to deliver AI computers at a massive scale, said Dr. Lisa Su, chair and CEO of AMD, in a corresponding release. This partnership brings the best of AMD and OpenAI together to create a true win-win, enabling the worlds most ambitious AI buildout and advancing the entire AI ecosystem. The partnerships announcement arrives as the AI arms race continues to heat up. AMD finds itself playing catch-up with Nvidia, which has taken a dominant role in the space, particularly as it comes to developing, manufacturing, and deploying AI chips. But there is a clear hunger in the market for more computing power. As such, Nvidia and AMD could feel pressure from other burgeoning players, such as Google and Amazon, who are working on AI chips of their own. OpenAI also partnered with Broadcom to build in-house chips starting next year. Notably, OpenAI also recently announced a deal with Nvidia, which called for Nvidia to invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAIbut that deal has not yet been completed.
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