TNB Tech Minute: White House Works on Drone Deal With Ukraine
WSJ Tech News Briefing
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
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| 0:25.9 | Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, |
| 0:31.5 | October 2nd. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. The White House is working on a landmark agreement with Ukraine that would give the U.S. battle-tested drone technology from Kiev in exchange for royalties |
| 0:38.6 | or other forms of compensation. That's according to officials from both countries. For years, |
| 0:44.4 | the Ukrainian military has received weapons from the U.S., but under this new deal, Ukraine would |
| 0:49.8 | draw on its drone production experience and its battle against Russia to provide the U.S. with weapons. |
| 0:55.4 | A team of Ukrainians, led by the country's deputy defense minister, began several days of talks |
| 1:00.5 | with the Pentagon and State Department on Tuesday. A U.S. government official said the agreement |
| 1:05.5 | could be worth billions of dollars, and finalizing it is likely to take months. |
| 1:11.3 | Walmart CEO says the company will continue to hire more developers, even as artificial |
| 1:17.1 | intelligence automates more work. Last week, he had said that AI will not only eliminate |
| 1:22.2 | some roles, it will also create others. For example, the retail giant created a new position last month called |
| 1:28.8 | an agent developer, in which employees deploy AI agents to automate complex workflows. |
| 1:34.6 | A Walmart representative added that the company will continue to invest in upskilling and |
| 1:39.6 | recruiting top-tier engineers. And Rivian has narrowed its delivery target for the year and reported |
| 1:47.2 | lower production in the third quarter compared to a year ago. The electric vehicle maker |
| 1:52.1 | cut its 2025 delivery guidance today by 2,000 vehicles to 41,500. Rivian recently broke ground on a |
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