TikTok Deals? Visa Rules?
Sep 22, 2025•22 min
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Summary
Brian McCullough covers the latest on the TikTok deal, including Oracle's role and investor interest. He then explores the new $100,000 H-1B visa fee, highlighting concerns from tech leaders about its potential to drive talent out of the U.S. The episode also examines the European Commission's push to simplify annoying cookie consent laws and Oura Ring's impressive financial growth and market position. Finally, discussions include Coinbase's strategic move to become a comprehensive financial "super app," the reasons behind Scandinavia's emerging data center hub status, and the host's personal experiment with AI-generated bespoke content.Episode description
Once again, I THINK a TikTok deal is happening, so updates on that. Why lots of folk in the tech industry are worried about new H-1B visa rules. Might those annoying cookie consent checkboxes be going away? And why the real land grab in data center building is happening in Scandinavia.
- Inside Trump's deal to save TikTok (Axios)
- Startup leaders warn new $100K H-1B visa fee will hurt U.S. entrepreneurship and innovation (GeekWire)
- Big Tech companies, foreign governments scramble after Trump slaps $100,000 fee on H-1B visas (CNBC)
- Europe’s cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it. (Politico)
- Oura Ring Maker to Become $11 Billion Company With Latest Raise (Bloomberg)
- Coinbase CEO: We Want To Become A Super App (CoinDesk)
- Nordic Data Center Boom Fueled by Low Prices, Empty Land and Cool Weather (Bloomberg)
My most recent AI content experiment
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