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    Sean Jefferson named a partner in Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz

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    Sean Jefferson
    NEW YORK --

    Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz (FKKS) has elected attorney Sean Jefferson as a partner in the firm’s Entertainment Group. Based in FKKS’ New York office, Jefferson has wide-ranging experience in all areas of film and television development, production, and distribution, representing financiers, production companies, distributors, independent producers, filmmakers and athletes.

    Best Lawyers in America recently named Jefferson to its “Ones to Watch” list for Entertainment and Sports. Jefferson has also been recognized as a leading entertainment lawyer by Variety, Diverse Representation, and Lawyers of Color.

    Jefferson represents production companies and financiers in structuring and executing complex single and multi-picture (slate) financing transactions. He advises international co-productions on capital raises involving debt, equity and production incentives from foreign governments. He also advises private equity and fund managers transitioning into media and entertainment.

    Jefferson has negotiated and structured virtually every type of development and production agreement, including international co-productions and complex underlying rights deals. His recent work also includes representing filmmakers and financiers in award-winning documentaries.

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    Nvidia’s new GPU series led an avalanche of entertainment-related announcements at CES

    Tuesday, January 7, 2025

    In a packed Las Vegas arena, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang stood on stage and marveled over the crisp real-time computer graphics displayed on the screen behind him. He watched as a dark-haired woman walked through ornate gilded double doors and took in the rays of light that poured in through stained glass windows.

    "The amount of geometry that you saw was absolutely insane," Huang told an audience of thousands at CES 2025 Monday night. "It would have been impossible without artificial intelligence."

    The chipmaker and AI darling unveiled its GeForce RTX 50 Series desktop and laptop GPUs — powered by its new Blackwell artificial intelligence chip — kicking off a string of entertainment-related AI announcements and discussions at the trade show.

    "Blackwell, the engine of AI, has arrived for PC gamers, developers and creatives," Huang said, adding that Blackwell "is the most significant computer graphics innovation since we introduced programmable shading 25 years ago." Blackwell technology is now in full production, he said.

    Semiconductor maker AMD unveiled its latest Ryzen 9 and AI series processors Monday morning, boasting unprecedented performance for gamers and content creators. The new chips help AMD to further compete with rivals like Nvidia, Intel and Qualcomm in the budding AI PC space.

    "With the next generation of AI-enabled processors, we are proliferating AI to devices everywhere, and bringing the power of a workstation to thin and light laptops," said Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager of computing and graphics group at AMD.

    Google, meanwhile, previewed new AI tools for Google TV that use Gemini to make "interacting with your TV more intuitive and helpful." Users, the company said, will be... Read More

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