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Riley (0:02)
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Elijah (0:30)
Whoa, Riley was There's a lot of you here. Can you guys go easy on me? It's my first time telling you about the tech news. Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the US government 15% of all revenue from chips that they sell to China. I know. Specifically AI chips like Nvidia's H20 or AMD's Mi308. The news comes just days after the Orange administration hosted Jensen's Jacket at the White House where it was announced that Nvidia was granted the export license needed and in order to sell these chips to China. Impeccable timing because one social media post connected to Chinese state media says that these H20 chips are lacking technological innovation and are environmentally unfriendly. That won't stop them, though it does make things a little awkward. This is the first time a US Company has agreed to fork over some of their revenue in order to obtain these export licenses, rightfully making some experts a little nervous. But that doesn't matter, right? We're all used to pay to win by now, and senior golfer Trump needs more tacky gold to decorate his office with. I make you an offer you can't repeat. The move could bring in more than $2 billion to the US government since Nvidia was expected to sell more than $15 billion worth of these chips to China. Oh yeah, AMD is here as well with their 800 million predicted in sales. Yeah, there's competition. They're competing hard. Speaking of irrelevant things, aol, everyone's favorite dial up Internet service provider, has officially announced that on September 30th they are killing their dial up service. Rest in peace, little yellow man. No longer do you have to run for the remaining 160,000Americans that still use dial up to get their 56 kilobytes a second. Is that how slow it was? Yikes. Are you shocked that many people are still using dial up? I know I was when I read that number. But it is down from about 260,000 just six years ago. This service shutdown comes just four years after Verizon sold Yahoo and AOL to Apollo for a whopping $5 billion. I do wonder how much of that was Yahoo even then. As for now though, all other AOL services are staying up and running, including their newsfeed. Don't know why I bothered to point that out. It's just yellow Yahoo Newsfeed. But hey, remember AOL? It's still here. Barely. GitHub CEO Thomas Domke has announced that he will be resigning. In a blog post he announced he wants to become a startup founder again outside of GitHub and Microsoft, concluding his almost four years as CEO. Microsoft purchased GitHub back in 2018 for 7.5 billion, and at the time people were definitely worried that this acquisition by a major corporation would threaten its community focus. Since then, it's operated more or less as a separate company. But with the departure Of Thomas, the GitHub leadership team will now be reporting to Microsoft's new Core AI team. Instead of getting a direct replacement CEO Thomas plans to stay with GitHub until the end of 2025 to help the transition. Get out of my swamp, Thomas. Don't get but what the is core AI? It's a Microsoft division led by former Meta executive Jay Parakey, with the goal of building an AI platform and tools for both internal use and for its customers. Yay. More AI. How will this affect GitHub? Maybe we'll get an AI CEO. At least then it'll tell me I do a great job every damn time. You're so good, Elijah. You're brilliant, Elijah. Thank you. But I'll let Riley tell you about our sponsor. He's brilliant too. He's pretty cool.