AI is conducting job interviews more and more widely. And while it may be anxiety-inducing for some—as they attempt to figure out what a robot deems hirable—others are rage-baiting the technology for the lolz in skits online. In one recent viral video shared to X, content creator Nick Reid hilariously trolled his AI interviewer, “Karen,” who was seemingly screening him for a job at Burger King—one he clearly didn’t want. Mind you, Karen isn’t a real BK “employee”: ”We do not use, nor are we aware of any Franchisee across the U.S. or Canada using a tool like this,” Burger…
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Shares of Nvidia Corp. (Nasdaq: NVDA) rose over 4% in premarket on Wednesday, and it has CoreWeave to thank. The semiconductor giant has spent days watching its stock tumble following news that CEO Jensen Huang had an extramarital affair with a alleged Chinese spy. Shares were down 15.61% in the last five days and 26.34% for the month. Now, Nvidia’s stock appears to be benefiting from good news over at CoreWeave. On Tuesday, the cloud-computing company shared third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street’s revenue estimates and included an improved outlook. CoreWeave’s revenue rose to $3.66 billion, higher than the expected…
On Tuesday, Apple announced it will permanently shut down one of its oldest online services: the Apple Support Community forum, where users could post questions and get answers about the iPhone, the Mac, and other Apple products they owned. The forum has existed in some form since the late ’90s, but its closure, while abrupt, makes a lot of sense. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? One Tuesday, visitors to the Apple Support Community (found at discussions.apple.com) discovered they could no longer post new topics to the nearly three-decade-old Apple forum. Instead, they were greeted with a message…
Just in time for Veterans Day, a new installation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., pokes fun at one of President Donald Trump’s Vietnam War draft deferments. The Foot Soldier depicts a seated and gilded Trump with one shoe off as he looks at his bare foot. According to The Secret Handshake, the anonymous art collective behind the statue, the piece was inspired by the idea of what a Lincoln Memorial-style sculpture of Trump might look like. “We wanted it to have a regal, military feel,” the group says in an email. But unlike Lincoln, who is depicted gazing…
Tobias Frere-Jones has designed typefaces for clients like Martha Stewart Living, the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Carnegie Hall, Stacey Abrams, Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral office, the American Civil Liberties Union, New York City Football Club, and many more. Years ago, a friend of his asked him what he thought what letters are made of. Frere-Jones’s answer came quickly and in a single word: negotiation. As a culture, we agree that letters take a certain shape and carry specific meaning, says Frere-Jones. Running his own typeface foundry in Brooklyn, he describes himself a translator, oscillating between…
Americans, in case you hadn’t heard, are growing weary of AI. Just one in nine Americans supports AI data center construction in their community, according to a poll from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A Pew Research Center survey found that 67% have little or no confidence in the federal government’s ability to regulate artificial intelligence effectively. And perhaps most tellingly, 54% of Americans say they’re simply tired of hearing about AI, according to a Talker Research survey. Amid the nonstop barrage of headlines about AI’s risks and hype, it’s easy to lose sight of what the tech is actually…
When companies put all their faith and trust in one powerful leader, backup plans when things go south are hard to come by. Just ask Nvidia. The world’s second most valuable company (down to the third most valuable as of this writing) is in the throes of a major PR scandal that hasn’t just shaken trust in the tech company’s leader, but in the entire entity. Over the weekend, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to having an extramarital affair with suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang (no relation to Jensen), an executive from Singapore-based tech company Megaspeed. Nvidia announced it would…
Palantir has hired former Democratic Senator Jon Tester of Montana, who spent 18 years in Washington and was once an outspoken critic of government surveillance. Tester lost his reelection campaign in 2024 and is now advising one of the most controversial government technology contractors in America. He insists that his role is advisory rather than lobbying, but politically the arrangement is unmistakable. Palantir is preparing for a Democratic Congress that has already raised serious questions about its government contracts, particularly those involving immigration enforcement and the collection and analysis of personal information. The company is valued at more than $350…
Looking back through old photographs often happens in a family living room, turning the pages of a loved one’s photo albums. But on TikTok, the nostalgic ritual is its own trend. Users are showcasing their life progress by looking back to their childhood, comparing their baby photos to recent ones. While the captions vary across videos, it’s the music and lyrics that bring them all together: Pink Floyd’s “Time.” The trend uses the photo-carousel feature on TikTok as a template: In the first photo, with the user at a young age, the lyric “The sun is the same, in a…
The October CPI report came in hotter than Wall Street expected, with consumer prices rising 0.4% against expectations of 0.3%. Core inflation, excluding food and energy, increased 0.3% rather than the anticipated 0.2%. September had already produced a 0.6% increase in headline prices, and now October has added another increase on top of that. The financial press will point out that inflation slowed from the previous month. That is technically correct, but the underlying problem is that price pressures are continuing to spread through the economy while Washington remains convinced that adjusting interest rates will somehow resolve the consequences of…