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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | I've ruled out uni because I want to live at home. |
0:02.0 | I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money. |
0:05.0 | I've ruled out uni because of my grades. |
0:10.0 | Study with the Open University and there's no need to rule out anything. |
0:13.0 | With our respected degrees, you can learn from home and work alongside study. |
0:17.0 | We're open to all. Plus, you'll have the support of expert tutors. |
0:22.8 | So rethink your future with the degree you didn't think was possible. The Open University. |
0:28.3 | The future is open. |
0:36.2 | If you don't spend a lot of time thinking about tech CEOs, |
0:39.7 | you might not be too familiar with Jensen Wong, who runs Nvidia. |
0:44.7 | Invidia makes chips, graphics, processing units, or GPUs. |
0:50.3 | And for a long time, this was basically the realm of video game nerds. |
0:54.6 | So Jensen Huang was an engineer who basically did not have anything to do in Washington, D.C. |
1:01.0 | because he made this relatively niche product. |
1:04.6 | That's Amrith Ram Kumar, who covers tech policy for the Wall Street Journal. |
1:08.7 | With the rise of artificial intelligence, it turns out these GPUs and the products |
1:13.0 | and software and video makes are actually vital. |
1:15.7 | So the company has just gotten gangbusters, their market values above $4 trillion now. |
1:20.5 | And the chips they make are really these strategic commodities. |
1:24.5 | And Wong, who's got a shock of gray hair and always wears a black leather jacket, |
1:29.2 | is at the center of a global fight between the U.S. and China and lots of other countries over |
1:34.5 | who gets his chips. He's an engineer turned CEO turned amateur diplomat. |
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