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America holds the lead in the AI race -- but our advantage may not last,
it warned, calling for government help in AI chip production, streamlining regulations and beefing up cybersecurity against national adversaries It's a huge geopolitical competition, and China's running at it super hard,
warned Facebook titan Mark Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan podcast If America falls behind China on AI, we will fall behind everywhere: economically, militarily, scientifically, educationally, everywhere,
the US Senate's top Democrat Chuck Schumer said Tuesday The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser focused on competing,
Every dollar and gig of data that flows into Chinese AI are dollars and data that will ultimately be used against the United States,
said Hawley, R-Mo., in a statement Instead of spending billions and billions, you'll spend less, and you'll come up with, hopefully, the same solution,
There's substantial evidence that what DeepSeek did here is they distilled the knowledge out of OpenAI's models,
If you could do it cheaper, if you could do it [for] less [and] get to the same end result. I think that's a good thing for us,
he told reporters on board Air Force One I spoke with [the National Security Council] this morning, they are looking into what [natinal security implications] may be,
Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek's services, registration may be busy,
a banner on the company's website said on Wednesday If China is catching up quickly to the US in the AI race, then the economics of AI will be turned on its head,
warned Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB, in a note to clients We should take the developments out of China very, very seriously."
But last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Nadella warned Now the top AI concern has to be ensuring [the United States] wins."
Adam Kovacevich, CEO of the tech industry trade group Chamber of Progress, echoed the sentiment DeepSeek R1 is AI's Sputnik moment,
Tech investor and Trump ally Marc Andreessen declared Markets have begun to cast doubt on the assumed dominance of US tech firms in the AI space and the lofty valuations they have commanded.
As Jason Hollands, a director of investing platform Bestinvest, puts it This concentration means that any significant downturn in the tech sector can have an outsized impact on the broader market
As Damien Fahy, founder of personal finance website Money To The Masses, explains In our American Fund, we have been trimming our holding in Nvidia throughout 2024 and recycling this capital in other stocks further up the AI value chain,
says James Budden, head of global marketing at Baillie Gifford It is a bit like if you’re building a house and you think you’ll need 1,000 bricks but now you find you actually only need 100
David Coombs, head of multi-asset investment at Rathbones Asset Management, says The current sell-off provides a timely nudge for investors to check in on their overall exposure to the US stock market, and in particular to the technology sector
Laith Khalaf, head of investment analysis at investment platform AJ Bell, says [A ... A] lot of these open-source apps, open-source models, you can actually sort of use them directly on other platforms. Perplexity is a major U.S. AI company, and they're currently using a version of DeepSeek that you can use that doesn't have the data privacy or security threats,
