Morning Jolt: America’s Artificial Intelligence ‘Sputnik Moment’?

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January 28 2025

America's Artificial Intelligence 'Sputnik Moment'?

On the menu today: The sudden arrival of DeepSeek, a new Chinese-built artificial intelligence, sent U.S. tech company stock prices plummeting and is being touted as a "Sputnik moment" for American AI. But today's newsletter will look at the evidence that this seeming story of triumphant ingenuity may well be a story of triumphant smuggling. In a world where oil, weapons, and all kinds of restricted materials cross borders easily and evade sanctions, just how sure are we that the export controls on advanced chips are really being enforced? And how much can the boasts of an up-until-recently obscure Chinese company be taken at face value?

Questioning DeepSeek's Extraordinary Claims
On December 15, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt appeared on ABC News's This Week. He had just published a new book entitled Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit, co-authored with the late Henry Kissinger and Microsoft's former chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie. Schmidt mentioned a then-obscure ...

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