Will the S&P 500 continue to decline all spring? 🇺🇸 DeepSeek released an upgrade to its large language model this week, an update the company said featured “significant improvements” over its predecessor as the China-based startup appeared to escalate its rivalry with OpenAI and other U.S. artificial intelligence firms, after an earlier release rattled global tech stocks.
DeepSeek launched an upgrade to its V3 large language model, DeepSeek-V3-0324, on the AI development platform Hugging Face on Tuesday, which the startup marketed as including improvements in reasoning and coding capabilities over its earlier V3 model.
Is POTS becoming more common
This is an interesting book, the first part of the book discusses how political tribalism has come to be so extreme and why that is dangerous to American democracy. The second part of the book is more controversial, but I still think the first part is an important read. 🇺🇸
To me this highlights one of the reasons Nostr is so important because a small group of billionaires are influencing voter tribalism to extreme division and occasionally even violence on the left and on the right by using bot armies as well as manipulating centralized social media algorithms (and in connection the mainstream media which partly decides which stories to report on based on what stories these billionaires decide to make go viral on centralized social media) 🇺🇸
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/whats-our-problem-a-self-help-book-for-societies/id1708352576
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Will Nvidia decline further? 🇺🇸 Chinese AI Chips Cut Costs by 20% versus Nvidia chips. Ant Group Co, backed by Jack Ma and affiliated with Alibaba, has utilized Chinese-made chips from Alibaba and Huawei, alongside U.S. chips from AMD, to train AI models with a 20% cost reduction and achieving performance similar to Nvidia’s chips, as reported by Bloomberg.
https://wallstreetpit.com/125434-chinese-ai-chips-cut-costs-by-20-challenging-nvidia/
Cardiac effects of psychedelics
DOGE layoffs are expected to lead to private sector layoffs as well which will lead to decreased consumer spending 🇺🇸 In addition the Trump Administration is increasing prices at the same time for Americans through tariffs without any clear increase in income for Americans. Many companies in the private sector are now considering pausing raises, freezing hiring, and calculating how many layoffs are necessary to deal with the Trump Adminstration’s economic policies.
chicken kebab and tzatziki, it was delicious, zaytinya #nyc
‘It is the calm before the storm’, economists warn. 🇺🇸 An upcoming trade war and more DOGE job cuts will hammer the US economy, economists warn. There are key indicators that point to this getting worse in the months to come. The index which shows how many people took on part-time work including because they were unable to find full-time work or have had their hours reduced, increased by 460,000 from the month prior, to 4.9 million people.
