TNB Tech Minute: U.K. Considers Sending Robot Minesweepers to the Strait of Hormuz
WSJ Tech News Briefing
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it. |
| 0:05.0 | Infliction is killing me! |
| 0:08.0 | But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits! |
| 0:12.0 | That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill! |
| 0:15.0 | See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll. |
| 0:18.0 | This bill would cut the vital resources they need. |
| 0:25.1 | While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they? |
| 0:29.1 | Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores. |
| 0:31.2 | Paid for it by the Electronic Payments Coalition. |
| 0:38.4 | Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Monday, March 16th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:44.2 | British Prime Minister Kier Starrmer says the UK is working with allies on a longer-term plan to restore freedom of navigation to the Strait of Hormuz, which may include autonomous mine-hunting drones. |
| 0:50.5 | Starrmer says his country already has drone boats capable of identifying and destroying mines in the region, |
| 0:55.5 | but he declined to say whether such assistance would be provided while the U.S. continued to attack Iran |
| 1:00.4 | or if a ceasefire would have to be agreed on first. Several nations, including the U.S., are transitioning to unmanned mine sweeping, |
| 1:07.4 | but the technology remains largely untested. Artificial intelligence |
| 1:11.7 | infrastructure firm Nebius says it has struck a $27 billion deal with Meta amid surging |
| 1:16.8 | demand for its data center computing. Nebius says it will provide $12 billion worth of |
| 1:21.8 | dedicated capacity across multiple locations, and that Meta agreed to purchase up to $15 billion |
| 1:27.0 | in additional available |
| 1:28.1 | capacity over a five-year period. And Foxcon says it expects shipments of AI server racks |
| 1:34.6 | to grow exponentially this year. The world's largest contract electronics manufacturer reported |
| 1:39.8 | double-digit growth in annual net profit and expects robust demand to continue thanks to AI |
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