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Here's your afternoon, T&B Tech Minute, for Monday, November 3rd. I'm Julie Chang for the

Wall Street Journal.

Two rare earth magnet startups, Vulcan elements, and re-element technologies have secured a $1.4 billion

deal with the Trump administration and private investors to establish a domestic supply chain.

The deal aims to reduce U.S. reliance on China for rare earth magnets,

which are essential for the construction of motors needed in defense systems, electric vehicles,

and AI data centers. In return for the funding, Vulcan said the Commerce Department

will receive $50 million of its equity, and the Defense Department will receive warrants in both Vulcan and

Re-Element, which offered the ability to buy stock at a preset price.

Microsoft has secured new computing power capacity. It's signed a five-year $9.7 billion

deal with the data center company, Iron. Under the agreement, Microsoft will gain access to

Irons' Nvidia GB-300 chips. The move comes as big tech races to expand data center capacity across the

U.S. To support the new demand, Iron made a separate deal with Dell Technologies to purchase new

graphics processing units and related equipment

for $5.8 billion. And in earnings, Palantir Technologies has reported another quarter of record

revenue. The data analytics company said it had $1.18 billion in sales for the third quarter,

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