The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture
“You now have the leaders of the biggest technology companies in the world saying, effectively in unison, that they do not care how much it costs to build all the way to A.G.I.”
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Show Notes
This week, an eye-popping $100 billion deal between OpenAI and Nvidia — along with an announcement about the construction of five new American data centers — has us re-examining our predictions of an A.I. bubble. Then, we try to make sense of the Trump administration’s changes to the H-1B visa program, which generated mixed reactions from tech leaders; the immigration expert Jeremy Neufeld joins us to explain why the new $100,000 visa fee is likely to hurt start-ups, universities and the broader U.S. economy. And finally, we take a look at one of the latest trends sweeping TikTok: planning for a biblical Rapture.
Guests:
- Jeremy Neufeld, director of immigration policy at the Institute for Progress
Additional Reading:
- Nvidia to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI
- OpenAI to Join Tech Giants in Building 5 New Data Centers in U.S.
- $100,000 Per Employee: How the H-1B Visa Fee Could Reshape Work Forces
- A $100,000 Per Worker Visa Fee Tips the Balance to Big Tech
- The Rapture Was Predicted to Happen Today. TikTok Has Some Advice.
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