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CHINESE AI FREAKS OUT WORLD
TRIGGERS TECH SELL-OFF
$1 TRILLION PANIC
DOUBTS OVER US DOMINANCE

 

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The AI disruptor is here. Chinese startup DeepSeek rocked the AI sector, raising questions about US tech dominance and casting doubts on sky-high valuations for companies such as Nvidia. DeepSeek’s low-cost R1 model, which is now the top app on Apple’s iPhone download charts, is “one of the most amazing and impressive breakthroughs,” according to renowned tech investor Marc Andreessen. Here is an explainer on why DeepSeek is freaking out the AI world.

Whether DeepSeek will mean deep trouble for Big Tech is dominating market chatter going into the new week. Stocks tumbled with chip giants Nvida and ASML, both of which have benefited hugely from the surge in AI spending, leading the downward spiral. Global tech stocks are now on track for a $1.2 trillion wipeout.

Now, as the WSJ reports. the CIA has also given a higher probability to a lab leak.

The Central Intelligence Agency has now concluded that the deadly Covid-19 pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, lending credibility to a view that has been the focus of sharp debate among scientists and politicians for years.

In doing so, the CIA has now joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Energy Department in identifying a laboratory mishap in Wuhan, China, as the probable source of the Covid virus. It has killed more than 1.2 million Americans and over seven million people worldwide.

“CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting,” an agency spokesman said in a statement released Saturday.

The spokesman added that the judgment was “low confidence” and that the CIA would continue to evaluate “any available credible new intelligence reporting or open-source information that could change CIA’s assessment.”

The agency had previously taken the stance that it didn’t have enough information to assess whether the virus had leapt from an animal to a human or arose from a laboratory mishap.

Covid-19 emerged in Wuhan in late 2019 and then spread rapidly through the world in 2020 and 2021 before the development of vaccines helped limit deaths. It marked one of the worst pandemics in modern history.

But the origins of the virus still divides the U.S. intelligence community, in large part because the Chinese government hasn’t cooperated with international investigations. Four U.S. intelligence agencies have favored, with low confidence, the animal transmission theory. So has the National Intelligence Council, a body of senior intelligence officers that reports to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

The fact that the Chinese won't cooperate with the investigation, which after all can help us understand worldwide epidemics, always makes me think that something fishy is going on, and by that I don't mean "wet market".   What cannot be denied is that both Facui and Francis Collins did their best to discourage the lab-leak hypothesis, and not solely on the grounds of science! They simply demonized those who suggested it, which is not a scientific attitude.