newsmemes

eschewing such tools as "research" and "sentences"

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DeepSeek, maybe you heard something about it this week??

If you, like most of us, now absorb an embarrassing amount of news via pseudonymous influencers sharing jokey, oversimplified images, aka, newsmemes, last week’s freakout over DeepSeek, the Chinese AI app, offered a bounty.

In a twist I never saw coming, the best collection of newsmemes came from none other than Deutsche Bank.

I am extremely curious to know if the authors of this meme-based report (called “25 themes in 25 memes”) were told to drop everything and meme the ever loving shit out of the news, or if they were asked, in a more professional manner, to produce a report about DeepSeek, and instead of doing it the normal way with graphs and charts and numbers, they took a few bong rips, cried YOLO, and turned in a collection of sick memes.

Either way, the bank decided to publish this for its clients, and shockingly, it’s quite helpful!

🗿 Deutsche Bank has published a bunch of memes about DeepSeek. 🗿

I, on the other hand, took the boring old-fashioned route and used such tools as “research” and “sentences” to report on DeepSeek. I spoke to Business Hero™ V.C.s about their reactions to the disruptive new player in A.I. After all, The V.C.s were the ones who bought into this idea that A.I. needed SO MUCH MONEY to be a success. Didn’t DeepSeek’s sudden success with very little money make them feel angry, stupid and gaslit right now!??!

Nope! It’s not that simple. (So they say.) Some are even excited. V.C.s, they’re such optimists.

📈 They Invested Billions. Then the A.I. Script Got Flipped. 📉

My colleagues also went not-quite-overboard with stories about DeepSeek: all the 101 facts, DeepSeek’s Chinese propaganda, U.S. export controls, OpenAI being super not mad at all, a profile of the company and a profile of its founder. But most likely, if you’re in tech, you know what’s up, and if you’re not, you have already figured out that, in the grand scheme of everything else going on, this is just another thing.

Important Business Matters

Startup everyone’s into: Bay Padel.

Startup everyone’s over: OpenAI is “on the wrong side of history,” according to Altman. Huh!

Reason to go on living: Elon admits to stolen video game valor.

Reason to take up residence under your weighted blanket: Are you ready for RFK’s “healing farms”?

Latest crush: This story about two child actors from School of Rock reconnecting (as normie, non-actor adults) years later and getting married. 😍

Latest heartbreak: From the Guardian: I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers.

Latest thing the kids are into: Children have taken over our government. (more on the 19-year-old Neuralink interns in charge of HR at the US govt here.)

Latest thing the olds are into: If you are a member of the Buffett family, the time to take over for dad (Warren) is the ripe old age of 77.

Latest thing the financial wizards are into that will definitely not end badly: Saving for college with crypto.

Latest super accurate A.I. novelty: Talking to your future self.

a dall-e summary of this newsletter:

“Extremely accurate depiction of what it’s like to work at Deutsche Bank

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