Tech Stock Shock + Solving the Mystery of OpenAI's "Blip" + Tinder's Flirt-Off

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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What do Trump’s tariffs mean for tech consumers and the future of AI?

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0:00.0	Here's something.
0:01.9	You have to play 50 hours of the original switch in order to pre-order the next one as a way of fending off scalpers.
0:09.5	Really?
0:10.1	Yeah.
0:10.6	How do they check that?
0:12.0	They like check your gamer profile?
0:13.2	They check your gamer profile.
0:14.7	Have you played 50 hours of Switch?
0:16.2	Easily.
0:16.9	Have you played 50 hours of Switch?
0:18.5	Definitely not.
0:19.5	I had to get rid of my gaming console during COVID because it was taking over my life.
0:24.7	I think that if we had been better friends during COVID, I would have also gotten a gaming PC and we would have played like Overwatch every night.
0:32.9	And we would have talked trash about the media.
0:34.8	Yes.
0:35.1	And we've gotten wrecked by 11 year olds.
0:37.4	And we've got to wrecked by 11 year olds, and then we would say, this was so fun.
0:40.7	We should start a podcast.
0:45.1	I'm Kevin Roos, a tech columnist at the New York Times.
0:51.5	I'm Casey Noon from Platformer.
0:53.0	And this is Hard Fork.
0:54.2	This week, the Trump tariffs are roiling the global economy, will tell you what they mean for tech.
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