This week: NVIDIA has announced a $100 billion investment in OpenAI to help build out data centers equipped with NVIDIA chips. <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zxqezqfhjwidbrsvk66ded57">Felix Salmon</a>, <a href="https://www.elizabethspiers.com/">Elizabeth Spiers</a>, and <a href="https://www.axios.com/authors/epeck">Emily Peck</a>, joined by Bloomberg’s <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASsN7vM58E0/max-chafkin">Max Chafkin</a>, examine the complexities of this massive deal and why it might feed the argument that the AI boom is a bubble. Then,Trump has announced a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas.They discuss how the clunky rollout of this plan has caused chaos and what it signals about the administration's immigration goals. And finally, Max explains how a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-18/how-an-enron-parody-turned-into-a-financial-mess-of-its-own">parody of Enron that turned into a memecoin fiasco</a>. 
In the Slate Plus episode: Digging into the 0.01% rule
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