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From $100B OpenAI deals to $100K visa fees

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By Theresa Loconsolo, Anthony Ha, Maxwell Zeff

September 26, 2025

From $100B OpenAI deals to $100K visa fees

From $100B OpenAI deals to $100K visa fees

From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech’s talent shuffle. Listen to the full episode to hear about:  

  • TikTok’s potential new home, and why Oracle is positioned to win big from the deal 
  • Oura Health’s reported $875 million raise at an $11 billion valuation and what it means for health tech  
  • Nvidia’s $500 million investment in U.K. self-driving startup Wayve and Jensen Huang’s billion-dollar U.K. commitment  
  • The massive data center deals driving OpenAI’s expansion, from Nvidia’s $100 billion commitment to Oracle’s $15 billion bond sale  
  • Trump’s new $100,000 H-1B visa fee increase that had Amazon, Google, and Microsoft advising workers to stay in the U.S. 

Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.

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