If you want to be technical, US is a proto-fascist state (i.e. there is still a lot of room for things to get worse).

The 14 Characteristics of Fascism

China’s biggest home appliances company, Midea, has launched a series of DeepSeek-enhanced air conditioners. The product is an “understanding friend” who can “catch your thoughts accurately,” according to the company’s product launch video.

This doesn’t really sound like a revolutionary use case.

Chinese media have hailed DeepSeek for saving the day in the city of Wuhan. When the police received a report that five stray horses had been wandering around at night, they asked the chatbot for information on nearby horse farms. Officials were able to locate the owner by visiting the farms DeepSeek suggested.

Maybe an LLM query ran faster than doing a search in a map tool, but by how much?

It’s actually a lie on the part of Nvidia. One of those corporate “it’s not technically a lie”, but there is still a clear premeditated intention to deceive stemming from malicious intent.

https://lemmy.world/post/26776509

They have one strong competitive advantage that Starlink will never have; they are not American.

By definition, you cannot trust an American service. Even if the people who run a given service are not degenerates, there are enough degenerates in the US that they could elect a degenerate who will fuck you over.

They have both GEO and LEO satellites. Not on the scale of Starlink (for LEO), but they do have a network.

I am not commenting on the nature of the stock market or anything like that. Just pointing out that they do have a working network, it’s not 100% speculation (like you see with crypto schemes).