DeepSeek And The "Sputnik Moment"

Story #1: DeepSeek – The Rise of China’s Open-Source AI Amid US Regulatory Shifts and Privacy Concerns https://reclaimthenet.org/deepseek-ai-us-tech-challenges

#MorningMonarchy: January 28, 2025 https://mediamonarchy.com/20250128morningmonarchy/

The Chicoms Are Coming! Quick, Close the “AI” Gap! (Nov. 2024) https://corbettreport.com/the-chicoms-are-coming-quick-close-the-ai-gap/

White House “Looking Into” National Security Implications of DeepSeek’s AI
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/deepseek-ai-national-security-trump

Italy Sends First Data Watchdog Request to DeepSeek: ‘The Data of Millions of Italians Is at Risk’
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/italy-sends-first-data-watchdog-request-to-deepseek-the-data-of-millions-of-italians-is-at-risk/

Bastion of Truthiness: DeepSeek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek

Marc Andreessen Warns Chinese ChatGPT Rival DeepSeek Is “AI’s Sputnik Moment”
https://fortune.com/2025/01/27/marc-andreessen-deepseek-sputnik-ai-markets/

Nvidia Stock Begins Recovery After DeepSeek AI Frenzy Prompted Near $600 Billion Loss
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-stock-begins-recovery-after-deepseek-ai-frenzy-prompted-near-600-billion-loss-134240328.html

Story #2: NATO, Sweden, Latvia On High Alert After Baltic Undersea Data Cable “Damaged”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-sweden-latvia-high-alert-after-baltic-undersea-data-cable-damaged

NATO Launches ‘Baltic Sentry’ to Increase Critical Infrastructure Security
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_232122.htm

Undersea Cable Damage in Baltic Sea the Result of Accidents, Not Russian Sabotage
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/01/19/undersea-cable-damage-in-baltic-sea-the-result-of-accidents-not-russian-sabotage/

Taiwan Reportedly Claims China-Linked Ship Damaged One Of Its Submarine Cables
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/taiwan_china_submarine_cable_claim/

Hackers Game Out Infowar Against China With the US Navy
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/20/china_taiwan_wargames/

#MorningMonarchy: January 29, 2018 – President Trump Has Dinner With European Business Leaders
https://mediamonarchy.com/20180129morningmonarchy/

Story #3: Trump’s 300 Executive Actions Made His First Week The Most Consequential In Presidential History
https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/28/trumps-executive-actions-made-his-first-week-the-most-consequential-in-presidential-history/

Trump Proved Democrats Want A Permanent Underclass Of Illegal Migrants To Exploit
https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/28/trump-proved-democrats-want-a-permanent-underclass-of-illegal-migrants-to-exploit/

Colombia to Accept All Deported Illegal Immigrants After Trump Tariff Threat
https://archive.is/M8ait

Kill the Penny? Elon Musk’s DOGE Found a Way to Save Money
https://archive.is/lT27i

US Orders Halt to Virtually All Foreign Aid Except for Israel, Egypt
https://archive.is/61vyi

SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle to Invest $500 Billion on AI In U.S.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/01/4ba4c5e366ca-urgent-softbank-openai-oracle-to-invest-500-bil-in-ai-in-us-trump.html

Trump Says He ‘Immediately Halted’ Hiring of 88,000 New IRS Agents
https://archive.is/Wm7Ci

Trump Hints At Ending Income Tax, “We Should Tax Foreign Nations to Enrich Our Citizens”
https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/trump-hints-at-ending-income-tax-we-should-tax-foreign-nations-to-enrich-our-citizens/3728338/

Lenin Said, ‘There Are Decades Where Nothing Happens’ and ‘Weeks Where Decades Happen’?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lenin-decades-quote/

William Faulkner’s Speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall In Stockholm, December 10, 1950
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1949/faulkner/speech/