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Deep[Wait and See]Seek
Before we declare the end of American tech supremacy, take a breath.
President Donald Trump’s first week in the White House has been marked by sweeping policy changes, a waterfall of executive orders, and an absolute meltdown by progressive media outlets.
Republicans are ebullient. Democrats, less so.
Media progressives are vacillating between wishing America ill — “Trump wants to reverse America’s decline: Good luck,” Samuel Moyn for The Guardian — and waxing nostalgic about Democratic Party candidates past, present, and future.
Does former Vice President Kamala Harris have a bright future in the Democratic Party?
Will Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political ambitions survive the disastrously-handled 2025 California wildfire season?
But political questions almost faded into the morass of media background noise for a moment while a new storyline dominated the news and social media landscape this week. From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, the country trembled at the rise of DeepSeek.
“What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup shaking up tech stocks and spooking investors?” explained Angela Yang, Ben Goggin, David Ingram, and Jasmine Cui for NBC News. “Chinese AI model DeepSeek sent shock waves through the U.S. tech market on Monday.”