The Capital Ideas Podcast now has a new monthly edition hosted by Capital Group CEO Mike Gittlin.

Investment professionals reveal their best mentors, how they find their next great idea,

and a few funny stories. Subscribe wherever you get your podcast American Funds Distributors Inc.

Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, October 25th.

I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

A few years ago, some big tech companies made some big promises

about reducing their carbon footprints.

But now the artificial intelligence boom is requiring a lot of energy, and that's got companies

betting big on nuclear.

We'll tell you about the tech giants investing billions in

nuclear power and why that investment is something of a gamble. And then Apple is late to the generative AI space, but with Apple Intelligence coming to

iPhones with iOS 18.1 it's hoping to make a splash with users. Our senior

personal tech columnist Joanna Stern spoke with

Apple's head of software Craig Federiggy about how the company is

approaching bringing Gen AI to iPhones. We'll have highlights from their conversation.

But first, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft

have each struck recent deals meant to bring more nuclear power online.

The companies are looking for clean sources of power to meet their growing energy demand tied to

AI, which is threatening to derail their climate

pledges. Here to tell us more is our reporter, Catherine Blunt. So Catherine, how

much of these companies AI ambitions change their energy needs.

Substantially, so after the release of chat GPT, each of the large tech companies has anticipated

...