The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture
Hard Fork26 Sep 2025

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

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


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