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Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, September 25th. I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration will offer artificial intelligence models to federal agencies from Elon Musk's XAI, a move that suggests Musk's relationship with the White House is on the mend. Under the agreement, federal agencies will get access

to models like GROC4 and a new faster version called GROC4 Fast for a nominal fee of 42 cents.

XAI now joins the ranks of Alphabet's Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, which are also essentially

giving away their technology to secure a foothold in the federal government, a stamp of approval in the AI race.

In other AI news, OpenAI and Databricks have signed a multi-year $100 million deal to sell AI services to large business customers, making it easier for them to build AI agents with

their own data, meaning OpenAI's models like GPT5 will be directly available to businesses

that use Databricks platform. We are exclusively reporting that last night, Republican Judiciary

Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Democratic Ranking Member Dick Durbin

sent letters to the largest users of H-1B visas, including Amazon, Apple, and J.P. Morgan Chase,

asking them to explain how many H-1B workers the companies employ, what wages they're paid,

and whether American workers have been displaced in the process.

It comes just days after the Trump administration overhauled the H-1B system, arguing that foreign professionals

were occupying jobs that could be done by an American. And lastly, the UK-based startup, N-scale,

says it's raised $1.1 billion from NVIDIA, Dell Technologies, Nokia, and others.

Nscale owns data centers that provide networking, storage, and

computing to power AI. And it'll use the money to roll out

data centers across Europe, North America, and the Middle East.

That's your TNB Tech Minute. Join us again this afternoon for more.

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