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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, June 16th. I'm Victoria Craig for The Wall Street Journal.

America's nuclear energy program has been supercharged by a recent and unprecedented influx of private funding,

enthusiasm from the Trump administration, and an AI race with China. We'll dive into how that reboot is progressing.

Then, a companion that comforts, jokes,

and reminds residents at a New York senior living community

about their next bingo game.

She's just a phone call away,

but she's not human.

But first, it's no secret that President Trump is a big fan of nuclear power.

It's a hot industry. It's a brilliant industry. You have to do it right. It's become very safe.

And environmental, yes, 100%. His goal, as the White House put it, is to usher in a nuclear energy

renaissance, and he's

signed a number of key executive orders aimed at accelerating advanced nuclear technologies.

The president's interest is fueled in part by America's advanced AI race with China, and

that requires city-sized amounts of power, and low-carbon energy sources, like nuclear,

are the preferred choice.

WSJ Tech and National Security reporter Heather Somerville writes about a company called

Standard Nuclear, which is trying to power up America's next nuclear era.

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