This is a response to this: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/20/2026-21447/notice-of-order-regarding-exclusion-and-removal-of-deepseek-products-from-federal-civilian-executive
The department of homeland security doesn’t want any data to get sent overseas, so DeepSeek did this so people can keep using their products for free. Which fits their business model - DS is owned by a hedge fund that shorts OpenAI and Anthropic before pulling moves like this. They’re not trying to make money with DeepSeek, just to harm the western tech bubble. Hilarious.
DS is owned by a hedge fund that shorts OpenAI and Anthropic before pulling moves like this.
Let’s fucking go
OpenAI and Anthropic are not publicly traded. I don’t know if they can short it
They could short Nvidia or do weird hedge-fund shenanigans but it’s a private Chinese company so it’s hard to tell. They’re wildly profitable though https://www.ainvest.com/news/quantitative-alpha-edge-high-flyer-quant-56-6-return-signals-strategic-shift-china-hedge-fund-landscape-2601/ they must be doing something right
not very innovative of them tbh. not very cash money
Although maybe they could do it through third parties like shorting Oracle
You can short private stocks just the same, so long as you get other people to agree to the deal. Nothing magical about stock exchanges, they just make trading faster and easier.
it’s actually quite funny
Critical support to this one hedge fund this one time
They’re not trying to make money with DeepSeek, just to harm the western tech bubble.
This is the only good argument for AI use I have ever seen.
You don’t like all the security fixes to Linux and Firefox they’ve already found?
i don’t like linus putting a paywall around the developers he admits to the project by saying he only wants those with high paid subscriptions to western ai to be his “developers” or making his codebase deliberately computationally hostile to those that use open models
Kernel.org doesn’t require model attributions anymore so what are you talking about?
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/14/linux-kernel-goes-full-ai-slop-code-hides-chatbot-commits/
“Torvalds suggested adding an AGENTS.md file that makes generating kernel code expensive. He ends every session with a lengthy cleanup pass that takes a couple of hours to run, executing tasks like ensuring that the code matches the comments. That amount of work cannot be done with a free LLM account. I asked whether that risked cutting off bright new developers that we would rather hang onto; Torvalds answered that the kernel project only wants serious developers. That includes having access to enough resources to function in this world. ”
Right, that’s how AI development works. You always do an expensive review pass at the end. He doesn’t say anything about needing to use proprietary models for that.
That amount of work cannot be done with a free LLM account. I asked whether that risked cutting off bright new developers that we would rather hang onto; Torvalds answered that the kernel project only wants serious developers. That includes having access to enough resources to function in this world. ”
whatever you think that means, to me it reads like he doesn’t wan the vast majority of people to live. he’s not exactly trustworthy
So basically using DeepSeek is praxis is what I’m reading here
Yes
well, using it instead of a western corpo one. better still not to use the tech at all for most applications
That’s genius, and a clever defense that foreign governments can use against US tech bubbles.
They’re not trying to make money with DeepSeek, just to harm the western tech bubble.
Ah, so that’s why Trump and the other bozos from Silicon Valley were on their knees when Xi was visiting.
Yeah and it’s why they keep making noise about the dangers of AI and the need for government regulation
