Here's your midday brief for Monday, October 6th.

I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

Open AI and Advanced Micro Devices announced a multi-billion dollar partnership to use AMD's

processors and new AI data centers.

The chat GPT maker is purchasing 6 gigawatts worth of AMD's chips, starting next year.

Though neither company disclosed the plans expected overall cost,

AMD said it costs tens of billions of dollars per gigawatt of computing capacity.

The deal is perhaps the most direct challenge yet to industry leader, NVIDIA.

Paramount is acquiring Barry Weiss's digital news and opinion site, The Free Press, for $150 million,

and is installing her as editor-in-chief of CBS News.

Weiss founded the popular free press site in 2021 as a check on what she saw as the media's

woke orthodoxy. Some media observers see the

deal as further evidence that Paramount CEO David Ellison is trying to score points with the White House.

His father, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, is an ally of the president. French president,

Emmanuel Macron, has lost his fourth prime minister in just over a year.

Sebastian Le Corneux resigned only one month into the job and just one day after he named ministers to his cabinet.

It's the shortest tenure in the fifth republic's history.

The French National Assembly has become increasingly fractious, complicating efforts to repair the country's finances.

And immunologist Mary E. Bronco, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the Nobel

Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that spurred the development of new

treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases and laid the foundation for a new field of research.

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