Xorte logo

News Markets Groups

USA | Europe | Asia | World| Stocks | Commodities



Add a new RSS channel

 
 


Keywords

2025-07-14 19:15:42| Fast Company

Southern small-town drama has made its way to TikTok. If you’re not familiar with antipasto-gate, read on. The saga began on July 4, 2025, when a woman named Nicole attended a party she had been invited to by her sons friends mom. The event was hosted by a local couple who, according to Nicole, had been informed she would be attending. As a newcomer to the town and appreciative of the invitation, she brought along a homemade antipasto salad. But when Nicole and her son arrived, she says they were immediately met with hostility. Called a stranger by the hosts mother, she was made to feel so unwelcome that she eventually left in tears. I dont normally post things like this, but I am absolutely humiliated, she says through tears in a video posted to TikTok. This is why you dont make friends in your thirties. @folkmedicineremedies I am absolutely #humiliated this was such a bad #experience and I felt absolutely like they were just #bullies #hurtmyfeelings #fyp #viral #wtf #mean #rude #july4th #partypooper #aita original sound – folkmedicineremedies The perfect storm of TikToks appetite for drama, the you cant sit with us relatability, and the wasted salad (It was like, probably a $40 salad, according to Nicole) helped the incident go viral. The original video now has over 35.3 million views. Id recognize this salad anywhere lol. Ive been so invested in this drama, one user wrote in a dedicated Reddit thread. Memes, comedy sketches, explainer videos, and AI depictions of the scene have since circulated. Theres a Netflix meeting somewhere right now discussing a mini series! one comment read. Unsurprisingly, the hosts of the party soon found themselves in the crosshairs of TikTok backlash. In a since-deleted video responding to the criticism, they insisted they werent mean people. We just didnt want her in our house, OK? they say. Both online and off, things have gotten messy. Nicole received threatening messages from neighbors, with some suggesting the sheriff should get involved. Her underage son was reportedly doxxed. One viral video even claims the party host lost her job as a result of the drama. @justunionjosh #antipasto #stasiahicks #stasia #hicks #4thofjuly #july4th #fyp #trending #greenscreen #drama original sound – JustJosh What once wouldve remained small-town gossip, antipasto-gate is now a textbook example of how TikToks viral discourse cycle works: someone posts a personal grievance, internet vigilantes doxx those involved, and suddenly a local spat becomes the internets topic of the day. For those caught in the eye of the storm, the best strategy is often to stay quiet and wait for the internets attention to shift to its next villain. Nicole, meanwhile, has continued sharing updates on her accountincluding a highly requested tutorial for the antipasto salad. @folkmedicineremedies #thankyou ! Again. Youve all just changed my perspective on many things. So here is the #july4th #antipasto ish salad from me the #saladlady #tiktoklearningcampaign #entrepreneur #fyp #reels – John (Songs Station) –


Category: E-Commerce

 

LATEST NEWS

2025-07-14 18:54:31| Fast Company

Meta may not currently lead the race for AI superintelligence, but it’s drawing heavily on its cash reserves to pursue the technology. Founder Mark Zuckerberg announced Monday that the company will spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several enormous AI data centers. The first of these centersexpected to be online next yearis called “Prometheus.” Zuckerberg says it will be capable of generating one gigawatt of energy. But Meta isn’t stopping there. “We’re also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW over several years. We’re building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan,” he wrote on Facebook. (A Meta spokesperson tells Fast Company Hyperion is currently under construction in Louisiana, while the Prometheus project is an expansion to a data center campus in Ohio.) Five gigawatts is roughly equal to the total energy consumption of Miami and equivalent to the output of five nuclear reactorsenough to power about 3.5 million homes for a year. There’s a certain irony in naming the center Prometheus. In Greek mythology, Prometheus defied the gods by stealing fire from Olympus. Meta, meanwhile, has been aggressively poaching top AI talent from rivals, offering multi-million-dollar salaries that far exceed what competitors pay. Zuckerberg is reportedly overseeing those recruitment efforts himself. With data centers of this scale, he could further strengthen the companys hiring appeal. Meta has also acquired a 49% stake in Scale AI, bringing its CEO, Alexandr Wang, on board. Nat Friedman, former CEO of GitHub, has also joined Meta. Daniel Grossthe CEO and co-founder of Safe Superintelligence, which he launched with OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever last Juneis now part of the company as well. With this wave of infrastructure announcements, Zuckerberg is signaling Metas intent to outpace OpenAI and other artificial intelligence initiatives. This comes after the company’s Llama 4 model underperformed following several high-profile staff departures. In response, Meta reorganized its AI division and renamed it Superintelligence Labs. And Meta certainly has the funds to support this push. In April, it raised its expected capital expenditure to as high as $72 billion. On Monday, Metas stock rose just under 1% to $724 per share. The company currently has a market capitalization of $1.82 trillionvastly higher than OpenAIs $300 billion valuation. But the competition isn’t sitting by either. OpenAI is building a five-gigawatt data center of its own, called Stargate. Announced in January, the company said it would invest $500 billion over four years to build the facility, with support from Oracle, SoftBank, and MGX. OpenAI committed to deploying $100 billion immediately. Texas has been designated as the flagship location for the data centers, with the first site expected to begin operations later this year in Abilene. “This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post. Alphabet, meanwhile, is spending $3.3 billion on two new data centers in South Carolina. One issue Meta did not address: the environmental impact of these massive data centers. A scientific paper published last year on Cornell Universitys preprint server arXiv (titled “The Unpaid Toll: Quantifying the Public Health Impact of AI”) estimated that pollution from AI data centers could cause up to 1,300 premature deaths annually by 2030. It also estimated that public health costs related to their air pollution are already at $20 billion per year. By 2030, the researchers forecast, the public health burden from AI data centers will be twice that of the U.S. steel industry, and could rival emissions from all the cars, buses, and trucks in California. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has dismantled dozens of climate programs in its first 100-plus days. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is also considering overturning previous findings that classify greenhouse gas pollution as harmfulpotentially weakening its ability to regulate carbon emissions.


Category: E-Commerce

 

2025-07-14 18:45:00| Fast Company

Debate over the so-called Gen Z stare is the latest conversation on TikTok to capture people’s attention, but like so many viral social media moments, generations from millennials to boomers have a very different take on things. Here’s what to know about the Gen Z stare and the debate surrounding it. What is the Gen Z stare? First off, you’re probably wondering, what is this Gen Z stare? Simply put, it’s a blank, unfocused stare into the void, often found in the faces of Gen Z (also called zoomers)the generation born between 1997 and 2012, wedged in between millennials and Generation Alpha. It’s most irritating for older people, namely millennials and their parents, who find it difficult to hold a conversation with members of Gen Z, instead being met with a blank, unfocused stare, often accompanied by silence or a one word answer. Why are people debating over the Gen Z stare? If the Gen Z stare seems like typical teenage behavior, you’re not wrong; Gen Z certainly doesn’t have a monopoly on being uncommunicative. Now, TikTokers are debating not only whether the Gen Z stare exists and is a thing, but also, what it all means. Is it rude, or a justifiable reaction to what is being said? In their defense, Gen Z social media users have said the stare is one of disbelief or frustration. It might be justified when, for example, in a customer service job, an older person can’t figure out how to use the credit card machine, or just has trouble using basic technologybest summed up by TikToker _kayluhbb, whose post garnered 1.1 million likes and a number of replies, like this one: “The gen Z stare is bc youre tired or repeating yourself.” There are plenty of other TikTok posts demonstrating the stare, including this one, in which the user acts out a scenario in which she has to repeatedly tell a customer that a class is fully booked. Fair enough. But older generations used to just call this type of frustration being impatient, or mocking someone. Just sayin’. However, not to be out-mocked, millennials are poking fun back at Gen Z, like in this post from a TikToker named Riley, who was met with a Gen Z stare as she attempts and fails to get her daughter golf lessons. Which is, at the very least, cringe.


Category: E-Commerce

 

Latest from this category

14.07Housing market watch: Would taking Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae public drive up mortgage rates in 2026?
14.07Antipasto-gate: How a $40 salad sparked viral small-town drama on TikTok
14.07Metas massive data center bet is a direct challenge to OpenAI and Alphabet
14.07Why this cringe Gen Z quirk has TikTok divided
14.07Zuckerberg announces Metas new AI data centers for superintelligence
14.07Why Walmart just pulled 850,000 water bottles off the shelves
14.07EU trade ministers call Trumps 30% tariffs absolutely unacceptable
14.07What happened at Sun Valley 2025?A roundup of the biggest news and deals
E-Commerce »

All news

14.07Stocks Reversing Higher into Final Hour on US-Global Trade Deal Hopes, Earnings Outlook Optimism, Short-Covering, Tech/Biotech Sector Strength
14.07Electric vehicles to be discounted in government scheme
14.07Starbucks staff must work in the office four days a week
14.07State Farm defends hefty 27.2% hike in Illinois homeowners insurance rates
14.07Reddit starts verifying ages of users in the UK
14.07Mid-Day Market Internals
14.07Tomorrow's Earnings/Economic Releases of Note; Market Movers
14.07Bull Radar
More »
Privacy policy . Copyright . Contact form .