Meghan McCarty Carino

What does the popularity of these gray market peptides say to you about kind of where tech culture is right now?

There also seems to be this sort of change in the paradigm of like the tech bro in the AI age where, you know, we used to kind of think of like skinny guys and hoodies.

And now it's like you must optimize your body, you know, like in all these ways because the tech culture is so hardcore now.

You know, it's all about being extremely hardcore.

That was independent tech journalist Jasmine Sun.

We'll have a link to her full piece in The New York Times on our website, MarketplaceTech.org.

Jesus Alvarado and Daniel Shin produced this episode.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino, and that's Marketplace Tech.

The data center reckoning has arrived.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino.

Those massive AI data centers going in across the country can't use as much energy as an entire city.

President Trump said he wants tech companies to pay their own way and touted a new Microsoft pledge to bear the full cost of its AI energy needs.

We're digging into it on today's Marketplace Tech Bytes Week in Review.

Plus, Apple announces its long-awaited new AI Siri will be powered by Google.

And NVIDIA can once again export its second-best H200 chips to China if it follows some new security rules and pays the U.S.

government 25% of its sales.

Here to discuss all this is Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information.

Yeah, this is a key point.

I think Jensen Wang, NVIDIA's CEO, had been sort of lobbying to sell these chips in China.