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With China's DeepSeek, US Tech Fears Red Threat

The emergence of the DeepSeek chatbot has sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy, with calls to go faster on advancing artificial intelligence and beat communist-led China before it is too late.

International Business Times

DeepSeek is great news for Microsoft and software stocks

DeepSeek’s success initially rattled investors’ assumptions about the AI spending wave that has swept through Silicon Valley in recent years.

Fortune

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

The Guardian - US

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Reeves plans to create ‘Silicon Valley’ between Oxford and Cambridge

Chancellor to announce plans to improve infrastructure in region to put it at forefront of science and tech advances

The Guardian - UK

DeepSeek selloff: Should you buy the dip in Nvidia, tech?

The success of a mysterious Chinese lab has investors questioning the AI spending boom that has swept through Silicon Valley.

Fortune

Is DeepSeek really AI's 'Sputnik moment'? The hazy backstory to ChatGPT's Chinese rival

A Chinese AI company has shaken up Wall Street and Silicon Valley, but is it really the disruptor people think?

Evening Standard

Top 500 Richest Lose £86.7B After DeepSeek AI Chatbot Launch Triggers AI Market Selloff

The S&P500 and the Nasdaq Composite declined as investors questioned America's AI dominance after DeepSeek launched its free AI chatbot.

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'Is DeepSeek a DeepFake or real?’: Silicon Valley freaks out

Also: Meta forms DeepSeek war rooms, Ryanair CEO hopes Trump scares Europe.

Fortune

What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI app shaking up the tech market?

The new chatbot app, reportedly developed at a fraction of the cost of its rivals, has stunned Silicon Valley.

The Independent UK

Breakout Chinese AI 'Programmed' To Toe The Party Line

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek has made waves in Silicon Valley, stunning investors and industry insiders with its ability to match the skills of its Western competitors at a fraction of the cost.

International Business Times

Trump warns new Chinese DeepSeek AI is a ‘wake up call’ for US tech companies

The Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s latest large language model has been described as a ‘Sputnik moment’ for the American tech industry

The Independent UK

Trump Warns Of 'Wake-up Call' As Low-cost Chinese AI Jolts Silicon Valley

Trump said the DeepSeek release "should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win." He argued that it could be a "positive" for US tech giants, adding: "instead of spending billions and billions, you'll spend less, and you'll come up with…

International Business Times

Silicon Valley Rattled By Low-cost Chinese AI

Fears that the AI gold rush could be under threat rocked Wall Street on Monday following the emergence of a ChatGPT-like model from China, triggering predictions of turmoil for Silicon Valley and accusations of cheating.

International Business Times

LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman sees bright AI future and hopes his tech peers are right about Trump

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology luminary Peter Thiel became friends as college students during the 1980s

The Independent UK

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Fortune

China just redefined the global AI race—with massive implications for OpenAI, Nvidia, and foreign policy

Silicon Valley’s initial advantage in LLMs evaporated quickly despite export controls, writes AI expert Gary Marcus.

International Business Times

With Trump Win, Silicon Valley's Right Flank Takes On Washington

One week into his second administration, Donald Trump has put technology at the forefront, featuring tech billionaires prominently at his inauguration and announcing major AI infrastructure deals from the White House.

The Guardian - US

‘The reign of terror is over’: my weird weekend partying with the triumphant tech right

As Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg gathered for Trump’s inauguration, crypto diehards and members of the Paypal Mafia celebrated a new era for the Magaverse

LiveScience

Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months. Silicon Valley is freaked out.

DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning model made by Chinese researchers, completes tasks with a comparable proficiency to OpenAI's o1 at a fraction of the cost.

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Meta’s shifting goalposts, new tools of censorship: Will 2025 be India’s year of jeopardy?

Modi’s vision of a restrained online space in India had a busy but not wholly satisfying 2024. The latest version of the Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill vanished from sight after content creators vociferously pushed back. The Digital India Bill, which aimed to wrestle control from Silicon Valley, similarly could not…

Evening Standard

Children ‘no match’ for Silicon Valley billions, peer says in online safety plea

‘A child whether five or 15 is no match for the billions of dollars spent hijacking their attention’, Baroness Kidron said

The Independent UK

TikTok realized the advantage of bowing to autocrats. The tech barons at Trump’s inauguration are following suit

ANALYSIS: The chaotic unbanning of TikTok signals a new political fusion between corporate power and American authoritarianism — and Silicon Valley stands eager to serve, writes Io Dodds

Fortune

With Trump 2.0, the balance of power shifts from banks to Silicon Valley

What the new administration could mean for financial technology—and beyond.

The Street

Many billionaire tech CEOs will be at Donald Trump’s inauguration (but not all)

One Silicon Valley leader will not be joining his Magnificent 7 CEO peers

The Independent UK

A Tesla Cybertruck joyride with Elon Musk’s biggest fans

How can a group of climate-conscious, liberal-leaning Tesla superfans in Silicon Valley support the Trump-Musk alliance? Josh Marcus took a cruise in a Cybertruck to find out

The Guardian - UK

The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that

The convergence of money and politics isn’t new. What’s different is the Silicon Valley right’s hostility to the nation state, says author Quinn Slobodian

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