Tue. 10/15 – Tech Going Nuclear

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🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The Nuclear Energy sector is clearly getting back in business, thanks to big tech and their AI needs. The latest back and forth in the Wordpress brouhaha. The US is considering caps on the chips Nvidia can deliver to a bunch of countries worldwide. And is Tether getting deeper into the global finance game? Sponsors: 1Password.com/ride ArcticWolf.com/register Links: Google Backs New Nuclear Plants to Power AI (WSJ) DHH's Original Post Matt Mullenweg's Original Response Matt's 2nd Response Apple Unveils New iPad Mini With A17 Pro Chip and Apple Intelligence (MacRumors) US Weighs Capping Exports of AI Chips From Nvidia and AMD to Some Countries (Bloomberg) Crypto Company Tether Talking to Commodity Traders About Lending Them Its Billions (Bloomberg) The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over (Wired) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, October 15th, 2024.
0:07.7	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	The nuclear energy sector is clearly getting back in business thanks to big tech and their AI needs.
0:14.8	The latest back and forth in the WordPress Bruhaha.
0:18.0	A new iPad mini, the US is concerning caps on the chips NVIDIA can deliver to a bunch of countries
0:23.8	worldwide and is tether getting deeper into the global finance game? Here's what you
0:27.8	miss today in the world of tech.
0:30.8	Did not have on my bingo card at the beginning of the year that there would be a
0:36.4	slate of headlines like this one. Google has signed a deal to buy nuclear energy
0:42.0	generated from multiple small modular
0:44.2	reactors developed by US-based startup, Kyros Power, quoting the journal.
0:50.3	Google will back the construction of seven
0:53.2	nuclear power reactors in the US a first of its kind deal that
0:56.6	aims to help feed the tech company's growing appetite for electricity
1:00.2	to power
1:03.4	power AI and jumpstart a US nuclear revival.
1:03.6	Under the deal's terms,
1:04.8	Google committed to buying power generated by seven reactors
1:07.7	to be built by nuclear energy startup
1:10.0	Kairo's power.
1:11.4	The agreement targets adding 500 megawatts of nuclear power
1:14.8	starting at the end of the decade the company said Monday. The arrangement is
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