Brian McCullough is the host of Techmeme Ride Home. He's back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Why everyone's using ChatGPT to make Ghibli art 2) What is Ghibli 3) OpenAI's product dominance stands out 4) The Studio Ghibli copyright question 5) The AI servers are at capacity 6) The AI datacenters are still probably built out too early 7) What's CoreWeave? 8) CoreWeave's IPO disappoints 9) OpenAI eyes $40 billion fundraise 10) Is Silicon Valley about to lose its monopoly on tech?

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