DeepSeek 10 Reason To Not Use it #1794

The lead story for Geek News Central. In today's episode, we dive into the groundbreaking rise of DeepSeq, a Chinese AI startup that's shaking up the industry with its latest release, the DeepSeq r one model. This free AI chatbot rivals chat GBT in performance yet operates at a fraction of the cost. How did DeepSeek manage to match OpenAI's cutting edge models while spending just 3% of the training budget?

What makes it innovative, reinforcement learning approach so disruptive, and why is Wall Street feeling the shock waves? We'll explore the technical advancements behind DeepSeek, its market implications, and how it's challenging big players like OpenAI. Google, Microsoft as well. Whether you're an AI enthusiast, a tech entrepreneur, just curious about the future of artificial intelligence, this episode is for you.

Stay tuned to unpack how this underdog, quote, un quote, startup is reshaping the EI landscape and what it means to you or doesn't mean to you. Welcome to episode 1,790 1,794

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January. We kinda get a little bit of December, a little bit of January. We'll know. I do wanna thank, Kurt Corless for his insider donation. Definitely thank for his Ohana donation. If you wanna be an insider, go over to geekincentral.comforward/insider. So I tell you, it's just been a a typical come off a weekend. I took it easy. I had a very, very full week, or, actually, almost 14 days, prior to that. And, to be honest with you, I was antisocial. I took care of a little bit of

taxes. I got the 10.90 nines done, finished up some other project work. Otherwise, it was, I was I just chilled. Didn't go anywhere, stayed in the house, stayed warm. I wasn't even motivated to even have a beer or a bourbon or anything in the house. It was kinda kinda weird. So, yeah, just coming off a relaxing weekend and, of course, man, this today, we just kit with hit with this hammer, this hammer of news.

And and I think it's important for all of you to understand the insanity that has just went down in the last, really, 24 hours. Let me read the headlines. DeepSeq DB is a family multimillion MIT licensed open source model, including Janus Pro 7 b, which claims to be OpenAI. DeepSeq concern led to a tech stock sell off of NVIDIA by 16.9%, MVRL by 19%, Oracle by 13 per 8%, Avgo by 17, TSM by 13%, AMD by 6% ASML 5, 5.8%, or was the sell off unfounded? We'll talk

about it. DeepSeek iOS app, tops app store, top free apps chart in the US beating chat GPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley.

Nanivya calls DeepSeek work an excellent AI investment. Reut earning inference requires significant numbers of NVIDIA GPUs and high performance networking. Then there's a story about how DeepSeq outpaced OpenAI at a fraction of the cost. DeepSeq says it's temporarily limiting new registrations due to large scale malicious attacks on its service.

There's an in-depth look at Deep seek, deep seek MOE, and deep seek MOE, cheap v three training, US chip band, distillation for other models, and then it just goes on and on. Deep deep seek could be an extinction level event for venture capital firms that went all in on foundational models. Deep seek shows a complete lock complete lack of lock in and that any of these chatbots have, and such a powerful model coming from China may submit AGI as a national project.

DeepSeek's use a commodity discounted hardware and open source design is an awful shot at a hyperskeying that could be the way things will go. But that's not what the insiders are talking about, ladies and gentlemen. The insiders are saying, well, Deepsea can't talk about the NVIDIA chips they have. And insiders are saying that they have at least 50,000 NVIDIA processors and a lot of cheap labor. I am not buying in completely on what's going on here. I'm not gonna use the app.

I'm not gonna connect my API to it. There's no way on this on this god's given earth that I would even consider using this this AI model at this point. But, Todd, it's just AI. So I wanna talk about 10 things for and 10 things against

using deep seek, and I'm gonna go over this 1 by 1, and and I spent some time tonight thinking about this because what does it really mean? And there's a lot of people that just run to the next shiny object, and they put their data against it. This is, 1st and foremost, first and foremost, this is a Chinese company. Let's start there. Okay? Just keep that in mind. Keep that in mind as I walk through the reasons why someone might want to use this.

It has free access to advanced AI. They offer high performance chatbot, completely free. Why is it free? The cost effective API pricing, DeepSeq's API costs are significant lower than competitors. Why is it cheaper? Efficient resource usage. Its innovative mix mixture of expert architecture requires fewer computational resources, redoing costs and environmental impact. Maybe, if they're actually not lying about the number of NVIDIA chips they had.

Strong reasoning capability, DeepSeq r one excels in advanced reasoning just like chat gpt at a fraction of the cost. The open source nature of its model allows developers to fine tune and customize them for specific applications. Reinforcement learning. By prioritizing reinforcement learning over traditional fine tuning, deep seek has unlocked advanced reasoning capabilities with minimal training, quote unquote.

Rapid development, deep seek use of trial and error leads, error learning allows for quicker innovation cycles. User friendly chatbot interface, the platform is straightforward with simpler options for switching between general v three and advanced reasoning r one models. Quote, unquote scalable for enterprise, deep seek delivers performance sufficient for enterprise applications. Disrupting AI market, DeepSeek's success force establishment players to reconsider the high cost models.

And now the 10 the ten reasons not

to use DeepSeek. Number 1, data privacy concerns. This is a Chinese owned company. DeepSeek raises potential risks regarding data security, government access, especially in light of controversies like TikTok, has limited features,

lacks tools like image and video generation. It's already having reliability issues. It's having service outages and re registration restrictions due to cyberattacks. It has bias, and it does have censorship. It's been proven already to have heavy, heavy censorship. It's only telling you what the Chinese are allowing. Deep seek reflects government imposed biases, including restrictions on politically sensitive topics like Tiananmen Square.

The company has not disclosed its training datasets, so there's ethics concerns. Of course, they all have that. There's obviously fewer model options. It supposedly has inferior multimodal capabilities. There's definitely less customization for developers, offering outputs that are very rigid and very few options for personalized or tailored AI responses. And, of course, it has a limited ecosystem and unproven longevity, and I firmly believe that they are lying. This is my opinion.

I feel they are lying when they say they did not use modern hardware to build this model. I think they're lying through their teeth. I think as some of the folks have been whispering is that they definitely used NVIDIA Processors. Thus, the sell off wasn't warranted today. But this is a Chinese model. Would you trust your company's data going into a Chinese model? In fact, they state, they will use data that you submit to this model to train their model.

So if you give it company proprietary information, it is going to keep that information and use it to train the model and train the Chinese, and let the Chinese government know this.

People are stupid. I'm sorry. There's just no way. There's no way I would use this model. I would not. I would not use it. I wouldn't tell it anything. I wouldn't ask it anything. It's you're just asking for trouble here. I'm telling you. You if you wanna use it for personal stuff that has nothing to do with your work, there's nothing that's gonna get hurt by using it, Try it. But for god's sake, don't put any information in this thing from your company. I already issued an edict to my company.

I've already put out a ban. No deep seek. You are not allowed to use this model. There needs to be a lot more vetting. Now if you can download the model like Llama, well, you know, that's maybe a different thing, but I still don't trust it. I don't trust it. I don't trust it. I don't trust it. I don't trust it. What say you? My Geek News Central family, do you trust this thing?

I again, this thing is this thing is caused if nothing else, and if it's all BS, but turns out they were using NVIDIA chips to train this model, then the sell off today was unwarranted. Time will tell on this, but everyone's have losing their damn minds right now. They really are. People are freaking out, and rightly so.

Do you think the Chinese were sleeping? Do you think the Chinese weren't working behind the scenes? Do you think the Chinese are not gonna wanna be outpaced? But the question is, what did they steal in training data to make this model? What do they what do what do they think? It's very rare. Very very, very, very rare for Chinese companies to be innovative. They steal everything. They steal everything. I'm telling you. I love to hear your comments, [email protected].

What what say you in all of this? What do you think? Do you think my my, my warnings are exaggerated? That's the question here. I I just you know, I I'm sorry. I'm I'm pretty old school here when it comes to knowing how the Chinese operate. I I don't trust I don't trust them. You guys already know this. I don't have to say it 50 times, but, be careful. And if something comes back sideways, you were warned.

Think we have to be careful with any AI, what we feed it, not just the Chinese systems, but make sure there's policy stuff in place. We talked about the, the situation with Microsoft 365 on the last show. Same issue. People have concerns that data that's going in my into Office or whatever it's called now I don't think it's called Office 365 anymore. Whatever's going in there might betray Microsoft's model too. They say it's not, say it's not supposed to, but is it?

Lawyers, people with stuff that cannot be cross indexed, can't go from one folder to the next, have to be careful here. You know? Now in a more binary world, this one's gonna blow you away. Caltech scientists discovered the surprising speed limit of the human thought. Everyone, we're 10 bits. We're just a 10 bit processor. You say, how can that be? Caltech scientists discovered the surprising limit of human thought, just 10 bits per second. Okay. So let's let's

dig a little deeper in here. Now they quantify the speed of human thought and found it to be just 10 bits per second. In contrast, our sensory systems process information astonishing rate of a 1000000000 bits per second, 100,000,000 times faster than our thinking speed. So we see stuff and recognize it and process it faster than we can think about it. So this opens up some intriguing questions for neuroscientists, particularly why the brain can focus only on one thought at a

time. Now, sometimes, here, I'm doing 2 or 3 things at one time. I really am, you know, push the button, flipping a switch, but it definitely takes a pause unless I've got my finger control. It still does does take me a second to say, okay, push the button, you know, and and so I 10 bit seems to me very, very slow. Now a bit is a basic unit of information in computing. A typical Wi Fi connection, for example, can process 50,000,000 bits per second.

In the new study, Zhang applied techniques from the field information theory to a vast amount of scientific literature in human behavior, such as reading and writing, playing video games, and solving Rubik's cubes, To calculate that humans think at a speed of 10 bits, that's an extremely low number. Every moment, we're extracting just 10 bits of from the trillions that our senses are taking in and use those 10 to perceive the world around us and make decisions.

So what is the brain doing to filter all this information? We've got 85,000,000,000 neurons in our brain, with 1 third of those dedicated to high level thinking and located in the cortex. We know that individual neurons are powerful information processors and can easily transmit 10 bits per second information. But why don't they? And why do they have so many if we're thinking so slowly?

They suggest that given the discovery of the speed limit, the brain's neuroscience research ought to consider these paradoxes in future studies. Another conundrum in the study is, why does the brain process one thought at

a time rather than many in parallel, the way our sensor systems do? Now here's a thought. When I did my old job in the airplane and in flying electronic warfare, I could spin the dial, the tuning dial with my finger. And as I crossed over signals, I could process yes, no, yes, no, no, no, no, yes, threat, yes, no, yes, no, yes, it's important, Go away from it. No. It's not important. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Threat.

Higher threat. Oh my god. Threat. That type of a is I could go through stuff because I was trained for many, many years to really listen, combined with the eyeball on a scope, few switches, and I could very quickly, within seconds, make a decision that, hey. We got a problem, or this has come up, hit the recorder, or I haven't seen this in a while, that type of a processing.

At the same time, when I did stuff later in my career, I was often looking at images, flashing flash flash flash, and I could tell a change just by a flash. So as I doing one thing at a time, my visual was opening up and looking at a big a big visual spectrum, and yet my brain was processing what I was looking at. I I don't know if I agree. So if if our if our visual and audio is is processing at this extraordinary level, a 100000000 times faster than our thinking speed from our senses.

Is our brain just got to the point where it filters the junk out and you can focus

again one task at a time? It's really something to think about here, isn't it? The new qualification of the rate of brain thought may quash some science fiction futuristic scenarios. Within the last decade, Techmoogle suggested creating direct interference between human brains and computers. Well, maybe they need to tap right into the cortex. I don't know.

A new study suggests that our brains would communicate through a neural interface at the same speed of 10 bits per seconds with is incredibly slow. It's worthy of a a read here, ladies and gentlemen. Very, very interesting story. Put that right up there with the AI story of the day. Meanwhile, do you own a Subaru? Well, no news here. Bugs may have been fixed, but hackers wanted more trouble ahead. Hackers exposed serious Subaru security flaws that allowed them to remotely start your cars.

So, again, the situation with Subaru is has gotten better, but it sounds like it's about ready to get worse again. A pair of hackers revealed how they remotely took control of the Subaru Impreza and, thanks to a serious security flaw in Subaru's Starlink connected infotainment system.

So, they took event it took, control of the mother's vehicle, included the ability to unlock the car, honk its horn, and start its ignition with any smartphone or computer they chose, and they reveal the tactic via video. And Subaru is working on a fix and patching it, but it has been released in the wild. So it won't be too long as is the rate we're launching is satellites before where you will look up in space and see a sign for Coca Cola, or will you?

Astronomers are calling A Nation to ban advertising in space that can be seen from the ground, calling it the latest threat to the dark and quiet sky. What you're gonna have to do, scientists I don't this is just a race to the bottom. You're gonna have to put more satellites outside of these low Earth satellites to be able

to study the stars. Attrusive space advertising is defined in US federal laws advertising on outer space as capable of being recognized by humans on the surface without the aid of a telescope of other tech device, but we not every not every country has this rule, specifically, Russia does not. So you're ready to see a Coke sign in the air? How what say you? How about how about a a Red Bull? Did you know they had a Super Bowl for the Microsoft Excel World Championship?

So Super Bowl for nerds, December's Microsoft Excel World World Championship in Las Vegas. Finance professionals fluent spreadsheets are treated like minor celebrities as they gather to solve devilishly complex Excel puzzles in front of an audience about 400 people and more watching on ESPN 3. The Times know that many fans find out about Excel Championship through ESPN's annual obscure sport showcase, where it's sandwiched between competitions like speed chess and world dog surfing.

But the content organized in vision tournaments with more spectators, bigger sponsors, and $1,000,000 prizes even though this year's prize was a whopping $5,000 and a pro wrestling style championship belt. So I'm sure that was a thrilling thrilling event to watch. What say you? PBS channels are streaming free inside Amazon's Prime Video app. You can now watch a broad selection of PBS programming on Amazon Prime for free even if you don't have a subscription.

I'll be honest with you. I got a little confused here the other day, and I feel like a dummy. I, I wanted to watch the Dune series that was on Max. Now I already have a subscription

to HBO and whatever that combination was. So I went and created a max account just for 1 month to watch this Dune subscription, And then I figure out, because of all these changes in all these different services, which I haven't been using, that I had already paid for the same stupid thing on another service that merged, which HBO came, Max. I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. So you would think I would know this. $20 spent twice down the drain, so time for a spring cleaning.

I'm going to cancel everything. I cancel Netflix. I'm canceling everything. And then if I need it, I'll add it. But I'm canceling everything I have. I'm not gonna have any third party services. I'm not I'm done $20 for Netflix, $20 for that, $20 for this. Bought something they didn't need because they already had it, because they renamed it. They oh my god. Dune series is very interesting,

a little tedious. I had to take a break at 7. Any of you else watching it? Storyline, I will admit, is a little hard to follow. Our new vice president, vice president JD Vance said Saturday that we fundamentally believe that big tech has too much power. Despite the prominent of tech CEOs at the president's inauguration earlier this month, He says they can respect they can either respect America's constitutional rights.

They can stop engaging in censorship. And if they don't, you can also be sure that the present leadership is not going to look too kindly on them, Vance said on Face the Nation. Is that television still show still online? The comments came in response to the unusual attendance of a slate of tech CEOs from the inauguration, including Zuckerberg, Bezos. Bezos' girlfriend, of course, Zuck got caught the cap on a cap on a look.

Tesla's Elon Musk, Apple's Tim Cook, Google's Sundar, Piquet, the tech titans, some of who are among the richest men in the world and directed donations of the companies to inauguration. How this is a you guys you get those of you that are watching, I'm gonna give you the new symbol for Zuckerberg. You're gonna love this. And if you're watching the show today, make sure you say hello on chat. So for those of the you that are not listening, I'm gonna explain what I'm doing.

I'm licking my finger, the end of my finger, and I'm holding my finger up, and I'm figuring out which way the wind's blowing. That's Zuckerberg. Oh, the wind is blowing from conservatives. I need to go that way. 4 years from now? Oh, the wind might be blowing from Democrats. I need I need to turn and go that way. Zuckerberg is a fair win follower. I don't trust him. I've said on the last show, I don't trust him. I'll say it on this show, I don't trust him.

Boy, they they they they are farewell or fair weather followers. This is what they're doing. Makes you go, doesn't it? Apple removes 2024 time frame for next generation CarPlay page. So, they say the next generation CarPlay would arrive in 2024, but that did not happen. A little more than 3 weeks in 2025, Apple has now updated its website in the US to remove that 2020 Tour Prime for the next generation CarPlay. Okay. We'll see when it happens. Obviously, it didn't happen.

How many of you remember Tamaguchi? Maybe some of your kids still have a Tamaguchi. You know, the electronic Tamaguchi? Those were popular 20 years ago, 25 years ago, maybe longer. Now you can raise Anakin Skywalker with its Darth Vader Tamaguchi.

So, yes, you can take care of, Anakin Skywalker with this new Darth Vader, Tamaguchi. I'm sure you're gonna have to feed him, make him walk through sand. Who knows? So, anyway, Star Wars themed, Hamaguchi. So those of you that Star Wars fans out there, maybe go out and grab one of these as a collector item. I don't know, but, is available. Fubo, yes, is raising prices on all English language plans.

Not surprisingly, this hike comes a few weeks after the announcement of a plan merger with Disney's Hulu and Live TV. So in the latest riveting episode, everything costs more, Fubo raised the prices by $5 for new customers. The hike includes Fubo Essential plan, which only launched in early December. I'm I'm canceling everything. Everything. The food the Change and Output's food was cheapest plan, the aforementioned essential bundle at $85

a month. What? I guess they're a YouTube competitor, which now is the cheapest plan on YouTube TV's $83. Ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Digital should not cost as much as over the air. Being reported, LTE 5 g vulnerabilities could cut entire cities from cellular connectivity.

While scrutinized 7 LTE and 3 5 g implementations, a group of 7 researchers from the Florida Institute of Cyber Research and North Carolina State University identified a 119 flaws, including issues remotely exploitable, compromised, and access to cellular core. Every one of the vulnerabilities can be used to persistently disrupt all cellular communications,

phone calls, messaging, data, citywide level, the academic explained. Wow. Some of the vulnerabilities, the academics say, can be exploited by an any unauthenticated mobile device, meaning that even devices with no SIM cards can be used if they can send a malformed packet sequence when starting the cellular connection. 119 flaws. Coders, are you guys doing your jobs? A 119 flaws in a in a network that has been well road hard for all these years?

It's insane. Spotify? You love Spotify? I hate Spotify. But a new Spotify and UMG deal could create pricier superfan subscriptions. Podcasters not getting any of this money. Spotify and Universal Music Group have signed a new multiyear agreement that could result in tiered subscription approach aimed at providing extra perks for super fans. The 2 didn't announce any specifics in number of years the deal last, but UMG says it's consistently with a streaming 2.0 vision

if presented to investors last year. In other words, get more money, more money, more money for artists, which I have no problem if the artist actually get the money, but artists don't get anything. Artists are earning more money from value for value than they ever will from what Spotify sends them. Now it's not often that Google takes a, a bug report so serious. It says we fixed it immediately. Google takes action after Coda reports most sophisticated attack he's ever seen.

These guys were spoofing big time.

Someone called this guy and said, hey. You got a you got a phishing attack going on. Or no. He what did he say? He said, he came close to to to to voice phishers. The k the call came from 650, a genuine number associated with automated Google Assistant calls, And he was they were able to receive an email from them from google.com. And, but, anyway, they finally figured out it was a scam. And, he said, I'm pretty technical. I was one button press away from being completely pawned.

So it's a big issue, and Google is fast to react. So, Google will never call you. Alright? That's one thing to remember. If you think Google's calling you, you must think you're very important. They don't call nobody. How many of you despise the browser back button? The only time the browser back button is handy is when a programmer doesn't create a way for you to go backwards easy

within the web design. But people are trying to get rid of the browser back button. I think if you have a good developer that has developed a website well and you can back up by clicking within a website, we're we're probably okay. But, people are people want to get rid of things all the time. Bill Gates. Bill Gates thanks his parents in a new memoir. In Friday's excerpt from Bill Gates' upcoming memoir,

the Microsoft cofounder knowledge, it's impossible to overstate the unearned privilege I enjoyed. To be born in the rich US is a big part of winning the birth lottery ticket, and to that, my lucky timing. And, so he says the biggest the biggest part of my good fortune were my parents who struggled with their complicated son but ultimately seemed intuitively understand how to guide him. If I were growing up today, I would probably be diagnosed with on the autism spectrum.

During the during my childhood, the fact that some people's brains process information definitely from others wasn't widely understood. The term neurodivergent wouldn't be coined until the 19 nineties when parent had no guide post or text post to help them grasp why their son becomes so obsessed with certain project, miss social cues, and could be rude and inappropriate without seeming to notice his effect on others. I think we were more naturally able to detect geniuses.

I have a good friend, and, I won't say his name on the air, but his sister, everyone knew she was a genius. Everyone knew she was a genius, but she was so socially inept. And, you know, to the point where I visited my buddy's house one day, and she answered the door naked when she was, like I don't know. I was probably 16, maybe. She was probably 13, and I had to say, go go put clothes on. She was just completely obsessed with what she was doing and was so but she grew up to be brilliant.

And, I think all of us have got somebody that we know that is absolutely brilliant that was socially awkward. And, you just knew their brains were just wired different.

I caught the mad scientist syndrome. When I was spending time in, Sandia National Lab, I got to hang out with some really, I mean, true rocket scientists. Told about this before. And these individuals, men and women, were absolutely brilliant. But that shirts weren't tucked in, often wrong socks, lucky if their hair was combed. You know? I mean, just mad scientist. Albert Einstein types can't get the look. Right? And, so is Bill Gates? Was he was he one of those guys? I probably. You know?

And, you know, thank goodness for them. Yeah. You look at Elon. You know, a little nerdish, but, you know, it's just it's just that it it they're so awkward, but they're a type. Right? And then there's spectrums of that in between. I probably you know, I've said for many, many years I probably would've had ADHD, but was able to develop my own strategies to to stay focused on things. And it sometimes is harder than others.

I'm sure there's many of us walking my age that probably do have ADHD and or maybe on the spectrum, but we we had no choice. We we had to suffer through. We had to march our way through it. Right? I can't imagine having to been drugged up as a kid. I really couldn't. But, of course, no one knew any different at that time. And even if I even if they if they did, I don't think my parents oh, they they wouldn't have bought into that. They, you know, figured out.

Now that was the word, figure it out. How many of you have got parents like that? Right? Figure it out. Well, it's at the same time supporting you, but you you have to figure it out. You know? Sink or swim. Some astronomers are red faced after mistaking Musk, Tesla Roadster Roadster for an asteroid. The the suspected asteroid was announced on the minor planet electronic circle on January 2nd. However, the entry was swiftly deleted. I think we talked about this in the last show.

Global data consumption who hit a major new high in 2024. 2 categories led the spike in data trap. Excuse me. Global data consumption is up 15% year over year, 113% in 5 years. 20 24 traffic stood at 68 exabytes, 68 exabytes. Sporting events and video gaming are responsible. So let me 68 exabytes equals how much petabytes? I don't even know in in the in the scale of things where that's at. So 68 ecobytes equals 68,000 petabytes.

Doesn't actually sound that big when you break it down to 68,000 petabytes. Peta means A petabyte is a 1,000 terabytes. We have, we're moving petabytes of data at my company monthly. Not a high number, but we are using petabytes. So seems like 68. It was oh, that was the growth? No. He had a record of 68 exabytes. We're moving some some data when I move in petabytes then. Juniper VPN gateway is targeted by stealthy magic malware. Juniper VPN gateway targeted by stealthy magic malware.

Hackers have found targeting companies in the semiconductor energy manufacturing IT sectors with a unique piece of malware called J Magic. A new report from Black Lotus team at Lumen Technologies revealed unnamed threat actors repurposed Seadore, a stealthy backdoor Trojan designed to provide underwrite access to a system. This should be done as an open source proof of concept, so there's a new thing out there. I saw something the other day that, what is the let me let me Google this real quick.

Google abandons Quantum Chip. Which one was it? See if I can get okay. Does anyone know anything about this? About the this may have been b s, but does anyone know, if Google has abandoned their quantum chip Willow? The rumor is is that they abandoned Willow. Does anybody have any I I just help me out if you can. [email protected]. Let me know if Google has abandoned Willow. There's what I saw basically said they've something mysterious happened.

So I don't know if there's any truth to it, if that's BS. I haven't been able to really ascertain if what I saw was fake. I'd love to know if you know. At the same time, latest Windows 10 update is causing USB accessory issues, so don't install some of the most recent patches. They got a problem. There's a new bid for TikTok from Perplexity AI, which could give the US government a

50% stake. That's curious. Perplexity's AI is a pro has presented a new proposal to TikTok's parent company that would allow the US government to own up to 50% of the entity that that merges perplexity with TikTok's US business according to person familiar. How much money? The new proposal allowed the US government to own up to half of that new structure once it makes initial public offering of at least 300,000,000,000. Said the person was not authorized to speak about the proposal.

How does this work? If the plan is successful, the shares owned by the government would not have voting power. The government also would not get a seat on the gov on the board Because, remember, the government holds the key here whether TikTok survives or not. So I don't know how the US government would still get 50%. I guess, 50% is you will allow it to run if you own it. So

and they have to disconnect the tech from China. So Yeah. I don't know how this works, but, heck, if the US can get a 50% stake, I think that might be a good investment compared to everything else that we invest in. UnitedHealthcare data breach may have affected a 190,000,000 Americans. Remember, there's only about 325 or 330,000,000 of us. So, you know, all of our data is out there. Apple Beats Powerbeats Pro, 2 rumored to be AirPods to ear based heart rate monitoring.

So, again, Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 is tipped to monitor your heart rate, and a lot of things monitor your heart rate. What is going to be out there that will monitor your blood glucose that I don't have to wear as a patch? Some devices out there, but every time I read about them, it says, oh, it measures glucose, but it I never get the real a real and I know these are not FDA approved. Again, China knock off hacks or whatever they are. Has anybody gotten one of those?

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