Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Thursday, September 25th. Today on Forbes, how AI

hype minted two new billionaires from a company with no revenue. As of Monday, the shares of

12-year-old nuclear fission company, Oaklo, are up 47% over the previous week and more than 400% over the past

six months, thanks to excitement around the potential for nuclear energy to power the AI boom.

The most recent jump comes after the U.S. and UK governments signed an agreement last week

to invest some $350 billion into AI, quantum computing, and

nuclear energy. Despite the jump, it's not yet clear the nuclear deals will benefit

Oklo directly. The Santa Clara-based company also broke ground on its first nuclear power plant

at the Department of Energy-controlled

Idaho National Laboratory earlier this week.

As of market close Monday, Oklo's market cap sits at $21 billion.

Oklo's run-up makes husband and wife co-founders Jacob DeWitt, who is CEO, and Caroline

Cochran, who is chief operating officer,

New Billionaires.

The couple founded the company in 2013, while DeWitt was a PhD student at MIT studying

nuclear engineering.

Cochran, who graduated from MIT with a master's degree in nuclear engineering in 2010,

had just completed a stint as a marketing and engineering consultant. The name came from the uranium-rich mineral

deposits at Oklo, Gabon, renowned for having undergone self-sustained fission two billion years ago.

Each founder is now worth $1.7 billion per Forbes estimates, based on their

combined 16% stake in Oklo and approximately $30 million from share sales. Cochran, who is

one of just three dozen self-made women billionaires in the U.S., and one of just six under 50.

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