The market tanked over the weekend after Chinese company DeepSeek’s latest AI model — curiously released right as Trump was sworn into office — rocketed up the app charts. Shocking investors, the model not only proved competitive with our most advanced models, but far cheaper. Today, while the company’s enthusiasts allege US export controls on advanced chips forced the open source team to innovate, several prominent tech figures argue DeepSeek is simply lying about their stockpile of advanced chips. But it seems like both positions are basically correct, and in any case it doesn’t matter. We’re now facing the rather uncomfortable prospect of an open source, adversarially aligned AGI. If our nations are in a race to superintelligence, it’s no longer clear we’re winning, and in a game that concludes in a giant, paradigm altering question mark? We have bigger problems than the price of NVIDIA.

Just before Biden left office, his national security advisor ordered a new review of Covid’s origin, which was released over the weekend — and oh boy I’m shocked. Kidding, kidding, everyone still thinks it came from the Wuhan lab, the CIA now included. Tom Cotton, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said it’s important “to make China pay for unleashing this plague on the world” (true) while a CCP spokesperson called on “everyone to respect the science and stay away from conspiracy theories” (CNN, hire this man). Might the timing of this newfound ~ truth telling ~ have something to do with Fauci’s preemptive pardon? Unclear. And also I don’t really care. Guys, new rule: I can’t do another ‘obvious stuff we thought for years while officials gaslit us turns out to be true’ headline unless the story is also — finally — about someone going to prison for the man-made plague. Thanks in advance.

The Trump administration launched a nationwide immigration enforcement crackdown, with new border czar Tom Homan as well as several ICE agents making their way through the streets of Chicago (while Dr. Phil live-streamed the whole thing like an episode of Cops for some reason?), apprehending close to 1,000 illegal immigrants. At the same time, Colombian President Gustavo Petro got in a (short-lived) skirmish with President Trump regarding deportees being sent back to his country that went something like this — Petro: “¡Ay caramba! You want to send Colombians to Colombia? No bueno!” Trump: “Tariffs.” Petro: “Lo siento, I’ll pick them up myself.” While the Colombia-US trade war lasted all but a few hours, it didn’t stop AOC from rage-tweeting “Trump is about to make every American pay even more for coffee.” Good news: She finally cares about inflation and high prices! Bad news: It’s only when Colombian drug dealers get deported.

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