The four-way agreement signed in New York splits design, engineering, licensing and construction of a 300-megawatt reactor. The pipeline behind it runs to 40 units, against one under construction in Canada.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption27
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence56
Crypto Briefing totals the family's AI positions at $620 million of Pentagon loans, a $6 billion Trump Media merger with fusion developer TAE, and 38% of a token issuer that has booked $1.4 billion in revenue. A counterparty would need to know which entity holds what.
Reality
- Evidence24
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+46
- Incentives56
- Confidence28
The Fed's first hike in three years took its benchmark to 3.75%-4% and the Dow down 1.7% for a third straight losing week. Chipmakers and data center suppliers sold off Monday on AI safety headlines and got most of it back by Friday.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives78
- Confidence45
AI stocks fell worldwide on Sept 14 after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow model progress and Sam Altman ruled out a 2026 IPO. The deepest single-day drops landed on chip equipment and power suppliers.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives80
- Confidence50
Twelve Korean power equipment firms will meet about 50 American buyers on a KOTRA-organised trip that drew 10 firms and 12 buyers last year, with a Silicon Valley leg added to the Dallas itinerary.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption32
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives70
- Confidence43
The CNBC Investing Club says it is getting more selective about AI. Its September buy list still runs Intel, Micron at six times fiscal 2027 earnings and Meta at about 19, next to Kimberly Clark and BNY.
Reality
- Evidence22
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives85
- Confidence55
GE Vernova fell about half as much on gaining the same finance chief. The gap traces to what each company could publish: GE Vernova had dates, a retiring incumbent and an advisory overlap, while Rivian had only a search.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives58
- Confidence45
Musk says casting turbine blades in-house at SpaceX's Bastrop foundry can bring gas capacity online up to 18 months sooner, which would also move every air permit and community fight forward by the same 18 months.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives78
- Confidence50
Emerald AI raised $150 million to make AI workloads curtailable on utility request. Its strongest evidence is a two-day test on one cluster, and the contract that would matter does not exist yet.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+52
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
A $150mn Series A backed by Nvidia, Siemens, RWE and GE Vernova prices workload curtailment as the cheap answer to interconnection queues. The demonstrated evidence is one cluster.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives82
- Confidence55
The gas power book grew 16 GW in a single quarter. Annualised, one supplier's order intake matches what every turbine plant on earth can build in a year.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption70
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives58
- Confidence44
Treasury more than doubled its buybacks of long-dated debt on Wednesday and bought less than two sessions of calm. That is the variable to track, not the AI headlines.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption46
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives78
- Confidence51
PJM's filing would make any 50MW-plus site the first load curtailed unless it brings newly built supply, verified on PJM's calendar. Five other grid operators owe FERC the same answer.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption41
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives46
- Confidence43
The ARPA-E-funded MAYER project would meter spent fuel continuously into a digital twin. The load-bearing claim is regulatory, not technical: a lower NRC security category and less downtime.
Reality
- Evidence26
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives74
- Confidence30
Blue Energy and GE Vernova Hitachi will burn gas in Victoria, Texas from 2030 and start SMRs in 2032. The two-year gap is the part worth reading closely.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+41
- Incentives76
- Confidence45