{"id":225605,"date":"2025-01-27T21:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/tuesday-briefing-a-i-from-china-rattles-markets\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T21:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T21:34:10","slug":"tuesday-briefing-a-i-from-china-rattles-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/tuesday-briefing-a-i-from-china-rattles-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Briefing: A.I. From China Rattles Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/01\/27\/multimedia\/28ambriefing-asia-stocks\/28ambriefing-asia-stocks-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tuesday Briefing: A.I. From China Rattles Markets\" title=\"Tuesday Briefing: A.I. From China Rattles Markets\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2474aca\">China\u2019s A.I. advances rattled the markets<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Stocks sank yesterday in the U.S. as investors were shaken by the advances of the Chinese A.I. company DeepSeek. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/business\/us-stock-market-deepseek-ai-sp500-nvidia.html\" title=\"\">Primarily driven by tech stocks, the sell-off<\/a> also dented market indexes in Europe and Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">DeepSeek claims to have matched the abilities of cutting-edge chatbots while using far fewer specialized computer chips. That threatens the power and prospects of tech giants in the U.S. and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The chipmaker Nvidia <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/business\/deepseek-nvidia-ai-chips.html\" title=\"\">plunged more than 16 percent<\/a> yesterday, erasing hundreds of billions of dollars in market value. The Nasdaq dropped about 3 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jason Karaian, our deputy Business editor, told me that analysts were calling DeepSeek\u2019s emergence a \u201cslap in the face\u201d for investors, who may now be reassessing their expectations for big returns from the A.I. race. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/23\/technology\/deepseek-china-ai-chips.html\" title=\"\">Here\u2019s what to know about DeepSeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Tech competition:<\/strong> Last week, President Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/25\/us\/politics\/trump-immigration-climate-dei-policies.html\" title=\"\">signed an executive order<\/a> intended to speed the development of A.I., as the U.S. tries to maintain dominance in the field. DeepSeek\u2019s apparent advances, despite U.S. efforts to limit the sales of powerful chips to China, \u201cwas as much a jolt to Washington as to Wall Street,\u201d Jason said.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-1ded7974\">Colombia agreed to accept deportees after a U.S. threat <\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Gustavo Petro of Colombia agreed yesterday to allow U.S. military planes to fly unauthorized immigrants from the U.S. to his country, a day after President Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/26\/world\/americas\/colombia-us-deportation-flights.html\" title=\"\">threatened Colombia with high tariffs and sanctions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The clash reflected how Trump was ready to make an example out of Colombia as countries <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/26\/world\/asia\/india-illegal-immigration-trump.html\" title=\"\">around the world<\/a> have grappled with how to prepare for the mass deportations that he has promised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/us\/politics\/trump-colombia-tariffs-deportation-flights.html\" title=\"\">quick surrender<\/a> is likely to encourage Trump to use the same weapon against other countries. A number of governments have taken notice and are seeking help to navigate the new administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Lobbyists wanted:<\/strong> Panama, which is pushing back against Trump\u2019s threat to reclaim the Panama Canal, recently <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/us\/politics\/trump-denmark-panama-greenland-lobbyists.html\" title=\"\">signed a contract<\/a> with a team of Washington lobbyists with Trump ties. Just before the inauguration, Denmark began searching for a well-connected group with ties to Trump after the president said he wanted the U.S. to take over Greenland.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5fb6ce07\">More on Trump<\/h2>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-6e3d0569\">Auschwitz ceremonies were held as the far-right rises<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dozens of world leaders joined a group of fewer than 50 Nazi death camp survivors in Poland yesterday to commemorate the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/world\/europe\/auschwitz-liberation-80th-anniversary.html\" title=\"\">80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz<\/a>, where more than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The remembrance came as Germany and the rest of Europe experience a rise in hard-right politics that is widely viewed as an echo of the nationalism that brought Hitler to power in the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Germany:<\/strong> Just days before the commemoration,<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>Elon Musk spoke at a rally for the hard-right Alternative for Germany party, saying that the country had \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/world\/europe\/musk-germany-afd-auschwitz.html\" title=\"\">too much of a focus on past guilt<\/a>.\u201d Friedrich Merz, who leads in the polls for the chancellor election next month, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/world\/europe\/germany-afd-merz-cdu-migration.html\" title=\"\">opened the door to working with the AfD<\/a>. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-33ffbf21\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">MIDDLE EAST<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Life in Venice might be best experienced in winter, when its canals, ancient arches and restaurants are not packed with throngs of summer tourists. Or, at least, that\u2019s what the poet Joseph Brodsky thought. Inspired by his accounts of a frosty Venice, a Danish writer and his daughter retraced Brodsky\u2019s steps to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/travel\/venice-in-winter-joseph-brodsky.html\" title=\"\">find beauty in the cold<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Lives lived:<\/strong> Clinton Bailey, who documented the traditions of Bedouin tribes of the Middle East and helped preserve a vanishing culture, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/22\/world\/middleeast\/clinton-bailey-dead.html\" title=\"\">has died at 88<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-286d948a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">CONVERSATION STARTERS <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-762746c\">A new plan to bring power to Africa<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More than a half-billion people in Africa are without electricity. This week, a World Bank-led initiative pledged at least $35 billion to get power to half of the continent\u2019s unelectrified people using solar \u201cminigrids.\u201d These would make it easier to get power to places without existing infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Despite the political will behind the effort, many in Africa\u2019s power sector are deeply skeptical. Recently, a major U.S. maker of solar minigrids tried to go into business in Tanzania. When it closed up shop, thousands were left powerless and frustrated. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/climate\/africa-world-bank-solar-electricity.html\" title=\"\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-705d9918\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">RECOMMENDATIONS <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/briefing\/china-ai-markets-colombia-deportees-auschwitz-memorial.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s A.I. advances rattled the markets Stocks sank yesterday in the U.S. as investors were shaken by the advances of the Chinese A.I. company DeepSeek. Primarily driven by tech stocks, the sell-off also dented market indexes in Europe and Japan. DeepSeek claims to have matched the abilities of cutting-edge chatbots while using far fewer specialized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/01\/27\/multimedia\/28ambriefing-asia-stocks\/28ambriefing-asia-stocks-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23503,235,168,9036,19508,6943],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225607,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225605\/revisions\/225607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}