Chinese tech giants are rushing to buy Nvidia chips for building generative artificial intelligence systems in fear of new US export restrictions , the Financial Times reports. Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba have all placed orders for A800 processors from the US chipmaker, worth USD 5 bn to be delivered this year and next, sources familiar with the matter told the salmon-colored paper. The restrictions imposed last year were a bid to choke Beijing’s technological ambitions, but the Biden administration is considering even stricter controls, which could lead to a wider GPU shortage.

The latest in Gen Z career vocabulary (hold your eye roll): “Lazy-girl jobs.” Young employees are increasingly looking for job prospects that are ideal for work-life balance and sidestep typical downsides of fast-paced corporate jobs, the Wall Street Journal says. These jobs — termed “lazy-girl jobs” by (again, hold your eye roll) a 26-year-old influencer — “ aren’t roles where you can slack off, she says, but career paths where ‘your work-life balance should feel so awesome that you almost feel like you’re being lazy,’” the Journal writes.

Not unambitious, just not particularly ambitious: Lazy girl jobs are essentially ones that can be done remotely and without running the risk of overwork, pay salaries between USD 60k and USD 80k annually — hardly a coveted salary for a career-focused 30- or 40-year-old, but enough to cover expenses for most young adults — and generally allow for enough flexibility to take breaks, pursue hobbies, and set their own hours. These jobs don’t only include social media-centric careers such as influencers, the Journal notes, pointing to one assistant project manager at a real estate company working on regulatory and financial compliance, who says her job has the same characteristics as “lazy-girl jobs.”

The name is gendered, but the trend is not: Although the term is attached to women employees, this follows a wider trend on social media platforms, especially TikTok and Instagram, where terms such as “girlboss” have emerged, but are applicable to both genders. An anonymous forum on Reddit, for example, is filled with men expressing their frustration with their current careers, such as being afraid to take time off and having overly critical bosses, and their hopes to find more flexible employment — essentially saying they’re looking for lazy-girl jobs under a different name, the WSJ notes.

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