What’s happening: A Chinese firm, DeepSeek, shocked the West this week by announcing it had created a new artificial intelligence (AI) model for only $6 million and without using the American company Nvidia’s computer chips. The news sent Nvidia’s stocks tumbling, losing $600 billion — the largest one-day drop in US history.
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