The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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“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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0:00.0	Let me ask you this.
0:02.2	Settle a bet.
0:03.8	What do you think is a better name for a golden retriever?
0:07.6	Bubbles or potato?
0:09.9	Male or female?
0:11.2	Female.
0:14.5	Bubbles.
0:15.5	That's what I said.
0:16.9	So my brother and his family were getting a new dog, and they sent me pictures of this golden retriever. And my nephew said, we're thinking bubbles or potato. And I said, well, I think it has to be bubbles because dogs want a nickname. Yes. And if it's bubbles, then it's bubs, it's bubba. Sir bubs a lot. So bubs a lot.
0:38.5	Yes.
0:39.5	You can imagine it. We can go on, yes.
0:40.4	If it's potato, it's what, Tait?
0:43.9	Tater?
0:44.6	Tater?
0:45.2	Tater.
0:46.2	Popo?
0:46.9	Popo.
0:47.8	I wouldn't call it that.
0:48.6	That one's taken, yeah.
0:49.6	I lost, and so now the dog is named potato.
0:54.2	No, come on.
0:55.7	We got to change this.
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