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Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Wednesday, January 29th. I'm Bell Lynn for the Wall Street Journal.

All this week, we are exploring what President Trump's second term could mean for the tech industry

over the next four years and beyond. During his first week in office, Trump signed broad

executive orders related to energy production

that were aimed at fulfilling his campaign promise to make oil and gas a pillar of U.S. prosperity and global dominance.

Meanwhile, the president has embraced artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies,

tech that requires giant

data centers and could potentially consume as much energy as renewable and fossil fuels can produce.

Today, we are looking at Trump's energy agenda and how it could impact tech.

First up, our reporter Scott Patterson breaks down the energy

directives and tells us what the arrival of a more efficient AI model from the Chinese AI

firm DeepSeek could mean for the AI energy boom. So Scott, during President Trump's first week in office, he signed some pretty broad executive orders aimed at, quote, unleashing American energy.

Which sectors do these orders affect?

It's not entirely clear right now. These orders are directives to agencies to implement some broad stroke ambitions

of President Trump to do, as he says, create energy dominance in the United States.

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