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President Donald Trump and Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang. The biggest company in the world is Nvidia, and it’s been making the same product since 1993: a specialized computer chip called a GPU, or a graphics processing unit. Those chips do all the fancy, complicated math needed to display images, videos, and 3D graphics onto our screens. Back in the day, if you wanted to play “state-of-the-art” PC games like Unreal, Quake, or Half-Life, you likely bought one of Nvidia’s GPUs (more commonly called graphics cards at the time). “If you were a really serious gamer back in like 1998, you would be building your own high powered PC at home. You’d be up to your ears in circuit boards and soldering equipment,” Robbie Wheland, a tech and business reporter for The Wall Street Journal told Today, Explained co-host Noel King. “And you’d be buying one of Nvidia’s graphics cards, and putting that into your awesome high powered gaming computer that you would play on the internet.” Today, though, Nvidia’s product isn’t so niche. Their chips are more advanced, and they are now the hardware powering the artificial intelligence boom. “Think ChatGPT, Gemini, NotebookLM, or Claude,” Wheland said. Because Nvidia is now essential to the tech sector, that has made the company very important to the well-being of the entire American economy; the stock market can swing on whether Nvidia releases a good earnings report or a bad one. The company, and its founder Jensen Huang, have also become powerful players within American politics, foreign relations, and international diplomacy. Wheland broke down the story behind the company’s rise, its business dealings, and the founder’s friendship with President Donald Trump on Today, Explained. Below is an excerpt of their conversation, edited for length and clarity. There’s much more in the full podcast, so listen to Today, Explained wherever you get podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Pandora, and Spotify. Tell me about Jensen Huang, the man behind Nvidia. Jensen Huang is the co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia. He was born in Taiwan, which has really become the intellectual epicenter of the AI boom. And he moved to the US when he was a child. Today, he’s not only just the CEO of the largest company on Planet Earth, he’s also an incredibly influential and powerful person in foreign relations, in international diplomacy. He’s a very good friend of President Donald Trump. And I think it’s not a stretch to say he’s one of the most important individual people on Earth right now, just given how much power and how much economic might he oversees. If you go back to Trump’s inauguration, and you think about who was with him that day, many of them were tech CEOs, but Jensen Huang was not among them. Why wasn’t he there? My understanding is that Donald Trump maybe didn’t even know who Jensen was in January. He knew this was a guy who was a tech CEO, who had a very successful company. But when it came to his style of management; his style of deal making; and, more importantly, what Jensen could do for President Trump in terms of helping him negotiate international accords, he’s now become a show pony that Trump brings around to world leaders. He brags about how successful Huang is. He says this is really an example of American ingenuity and innovation. But, I don’t think any of that existed when Trump took office in January. Tell me about how this relationship develops, then, and evolves. I have to go to 2022; we’re in the Biden administration. What they did was they took certain products, certain classes of products, which generally meant very powerful microchips and said, “You can’t sell these overseas to certain companies.” At the time, the AI race was just really heating up. But Nvidia was not allowed to sell its chips in China, in particular, because there were serious national security concerns and serious concerns about competition and not letting China catch up with us. That was a big deal for Nvidia,…

A coalition of nursing and other health care organizations are angry over a Trump administration plan that could limit access to student loans in some cases. Students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy, public health and some other fields would face tighter federal student loan limits under the plan because it doesn’t consider them professional programs. The revamp is part of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” passed by Congress. While graduate students could previously borrow loans up to the cost of their degree, the new rules would set caps depending on whether the degree is considered a graduate or professional program. The Education Department is defining the following fields as professional programs: pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, chiropractic, law, medicine, optometry, osteopathic medicine, podiatry and theology. Left out are nursing, physical therapy, dental hygiene, occupational therapy and social work as well as fields outside of health care such as architecture, education and accounting. While the plan is still being finalized, the new student loan caps would take effect next July. Why this is happening now The Trump administration says limits on graduate loans are needed to reduce tuition costs. It believes that capping student loans will push universities charging higher-than-average tuition to look at lowering rates. To define what counts as a professional program, the Education Department is turning to a 1965 law governing student financial aid. The law includes several examples of professional degrees but says it isn’t an exhaustive list. The Trump administration’s proposal, by contrast, says only the degrees spelled out in the new regulation can count as professional programs. One in 6 of the nation’s registered nurses held a master’s degree as of 2022, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The details of the plan were recently hashed out in a federal rulemaking process. What this means for students Some future students could find it more costly or difficult to pursue a specialized degree. Under the new plan, students in professional programs would be able to borrow $50,000 a year and up to $200,000 in total. Other graduate students, such as those pursuing nursing and physical therapy, would be limited to $20,500 a year and up to $100,000 total. Trump administration says impact will be minimal The Education Department says its data show 95% of nursing students, for example, are in graduate programs that won’t be affected by the new caps. The department says the vast majority of students are in programs that cost less than the $100,000 cap being proposed for federal student loans. Students already enrolled in graduate programs would be grandfathered into current lending limits. Health groups say change will worsen nursing shortage A coalition of health care organizations has urged the Education Department to change course, arguing that post-bachelor’s health care degrees that are needed for licensure or certification should be considered a professional degree. They also say that fields being excluded are largely filled by women and in high-demand. According to a U.S. Census Bureau report in 2019, women made up about three-fourths of the full-time, year-round health care workers in the U.S. and accounted for a much higher share in jobs such as dental and medical assistants. The organizations contend that capping federal student loans will make the ongoing nursing shortage even worse, force students to seek more expensive private loans and threaten patient care. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing says if the proposal is finalized, “the impact on our already-challenged nursing workforce would be devastating.” Giving nurses a chance to further their education and advance their careers has attracted young people to the profession, said Susan Pratt, a nurse who is also president of a union representing nurses in Toledo, Ohio. But making that harder could…

Salty meals can lead to high blood pressure, the cause of a wide variety of other health conditions. Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a silent killer that lurks among us, helping to claim millions of lives every year. According to a new study published in The Lancet, the number of kids under age 19 who have high blood pressure has doubled worldwide since 2000. The rest of the population isn’t faring much better either: In the US, nearly half of Americans have hypertension — twice the rate from a generation ago. Key takeaways Many Americans, particularly young adults, don’t know they have high blood pressure. If unchecked, high blood pressure can lead to a lot of health problems: heart disease, lung disease, kidney disease, and even dementia. It also raises your risk of a deadly heart attack or stroke. Low-sodium, low-fat diets rich in fiber and potassium can lower your blood pressure, as can a dedicated aerobic workout routine. Wearables, like an Oura ring or Apple Watch, and GLP-1s offer new potential to control hypertension, but they are still in the early stages. That might mean you, too. And I’m sorry, but the news gets worse: Thanksgiving is the disease’s favorite time of year. It seems our social calendar and our food supply are conspiring to give each of us this too-often-overlooked condition — with potentially deadly consequences. Only about half of the people who have hypertension have it under control, a figure that has been declining over the past 10 years, even though this is among the most tractable public health problems that we have. With better monitoring, lifestyle modification, and medication, it is possible to reduce someone’s high blood pressure. But the problem is, many of the people who have it, especially younger patients, are totally unaware. Why hypertension is so dangerous What is high blood pressure, exactly? Your blood pressure measures how hard the blood pumping through your veins is pushing against the walls of your arteries, and it serves as a proxy for how hard your heart and circulatory system have to work to move blood through your body. If you’ve ever had a physical exam or a routine check-up with your doctor, you’ve probably had your measurement taken using either a manual or automatic cuff. The standard healthy reading is 120/80 (the top figure measures the pressure during a heartbeat, and the bottom measures the pressure during those brief moments in between heartbeats). If both numbers fall below that standard, it is considered to be a healthy reading. Anything above that starts to have negative consequences. First, arteries begin to harden, and organs can be damaged over time. But high blood pressure and its effects on your body’s function can lead to other issues as well. It can damage your kidneys; hypertension is one of the leading causes of chronic kidney failure. It can damage your eyes, which are filled with tiny blood vessels, causing vision problems. And it can affect your cognition, driving up your risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Both your kidneys and your brain rely on being efficient filters in order to function; when the blood vessels inside of them get damaged, they become less efficient at filtering the bad stuff out of your body or your brain. Over time, your blood pressure starts to rise — and a wide range of health problems can follow. The most obvious are heart attacks and strokes: Your blood vessels are damaged, and they start to accumulate plaque that further slows the flow of blood. When your blood flow becomes too obstructed, you can have a heart attack (if the blockage is near your heart) or a stroke (if it is in your brain) or a pulmonary embolism (if it is in your lungs). When that happens gradually, it can lead to heart disease or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) over the long term. Those conditions can kill you — either through a heart attack or pulmonary embolism. These are consistently among the leading killers in the…