When America Chose Empire

DeepSeek Developing In-House AI Chip In Bid To Cut Nvidia Reliance DeepSeek is developing its own artificial intelligence chip, a move that could reduce its reliance on both US-based Nvidia and China-based Huawei. Leading model developers are increasingly seeking to control more of their compute stacks, particularly for inference, as AI models move from training labs into the mass market. DeepSeek is the latest company to pursue this strategy by developing a new in-house inference chip, Reuters reports. If successful, this effort would mark a major shift for the Chinese AI chatbot...

Anthropic Races To Defuse Trump's Fable 5 U.S. Export Curbs While Jefferies Sees New Headwind For China AI Anthropic's Fable/Mythos 5 ranks number one in the world for model intelligence, widening the US-China gap. The gap may widen further because of "anti-distillation" features, and the models are now under US export control, which has shuttered access to the advanced models. LLM model matrix pic.twitter.com/d64OIhoYDH — zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 11, 2026 Anthropic's top security staff, including Nicholas Carlini, Logan Graham, and Dave Orr, were sent to Washington on Saturday to speak with senior US...

Goldman Breaks Down Build America 250 Impact On Construction Stocks The Build America 250 bill is a proposed transportation infrastructure funding package covering federal projects between 2027 and 2031 and would succeed the Biden-era Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which expires in the coming months. Goldman analysts, led by Ben Rada Martin, stated that the Build America 250 bill has cleared House committee approval with limited amendments, providing greater clarity around $580 billion for highways, bridges, and other transportation infrastructure. One main point from the Goldman note is that Build America 250...