Peter Savodnik

But Brianna, how many troops are we talking about here? I mean, how many people are right now in the military who are going to be kicked out of it as a result of this? Is that what this is going to do?

But Brianna, how many troops are we talking about here? I mean, how many people are right now in the military who are going to be kicked out of it as a result of this? Is that what this is going to do?

But Brianna, how many troops are we talking about here? I mean, how many people are right now in the military who are going to be kicked out of it as a result of this? Is that what this is going to do?

I'd like to pivot to the other big story of this week, which is DeepSeek, a Chinese startup that rivals the most advanced American AI products, allegedly for a fraction of the cost. Before we get into some of the defense implications, Brianna, I would love for you just to explain why Silicon Valley and Wall Street and maybe the Pentagon are losing their minds over this.

I'd like to pivot to the other big story of this week, which is DeepSeek, a Chinese startup that rivals the most advanced American AI products, allegedly for a fraction of the cost. Before we get into some of the defense implications, Brianna, I would love for you just to explain why Silicon Valley and Wall Street and maybe the Pentagon are losing their minds over this.

I'd like to pivot to the other big story of this week, which is DeepSeek, a Chinese startup that rivals the most advanced American AI products, allegedly for a fraction of the cost. Before we get into some of the defense implications, Brianna, I would love for you just to explain why Silicon Valley and Wall Street and maybe the Pentagon are losing their minds over this.

Along those lines, there seems to be this debate right now just about what you're talking about, about whether this is, I think as Marc Andreessen put it, our Sputnik moment for AI, or then there was the Palmer Lucky tweet saying, look, there's a lot of hysteria around this and everyone needs to calm down.

Along those lines, there seems to be this debate right now just about what you're talking about, about whether this is, I think as Marc Andreessen put it, our Sputnik moment for AI, or then there was the Palmer Lucky tweet saying, look, there's a lot of hysteria around this and everyone needs to calm down.

Along those lines, there seems to be this debate right now just about what you're talking about, about whether this is, I think as Marc Andreessen put it, our Sputnik moment for AI, or then there was the Palmer Lucky tweet saying, look, there's a lot of hysteria around this and everyone needs to calm down.

Maddy, do you see DeepSeek and AI as part of a broader kind of Cold War 2.0 struggle with the Chinese? And if so, how can we expect that to unfold over the next six, 12 months?

Maddy, do you see DeepSeek and AI as part of a broader kind of Cold War 2.0 struggle with the Chinese? And if so, how can we expect that to unfold over the next six, 12 months?

Maddy, do you see DeepSeek and AI as part of a broader kind of Cold War 2.0 struggle with the Chinese? And if so, how can we expect that to unfold over the next six, 12 months?

So I think one of my takeaways from Deep Seek this week is that we are now moving rapidly toward, I don't know exactly how to think about it, whether this is going to be some kind of hot conflict or cold conflict, but there is a looming conflict of some sort with the Chinese, and it's kind of metastasizing across the globe.

So I think one of my takeaways from Deep Seek this week is that we are now moving rapidly toward, I don't know exactly how to think about it, whether this is going to be some kind of hot conflict or cold conflict, but there is a looming conflict of some sort with the Chinese, and it's kind of metastasizing across the globe.

So I think one of my takeaways from Deep Seek this week is that we are now moving rapidly toward, I don't know exactly how to think about it, whether this is going to be some kind of hot conflict or cold conflict, but there is a looming conflict of some sort with the Chinese, and it's kind of metastasizing across the globe.

And we've been feeling this building now for many, many years, but it seems to be kind of ripening rapidly in real time. And that brings me back for a moment to the new secretary of defense. So much of what it means to be an effective secretary of defense means judgment.

And we've been feeling this building now for many, many years, but it seems to be kind of ripening rapidly in real time. And that brings me back for a moment to the new secretary of defense. So much of what it means to be an effective secretary of defense means judgment.

And we've been feeling this building now for many, many years, but it seems to be kind of ripening rapidly in real time. And that brings me back for a moment to the new secretary of defense. So much of what it means to be an effective secretary of defense means judgment.

And I guess what gives me like the most concern about the new secretary of defense is that he's all about this warrior ethos, the tattoos, the kind of there's the crassness, the bull in the China shop thing. It's sort of like a wannabe Trump. That is not a Jim Mattis or a Bob Gates.

And I guess what gives me like the most concern about the new secretary of defense is that he's all about this warrior ethos, the tattoos, the kind of there's the crassness, the bull in the China shop thing. It's sort of like a wannabe Trump. That is not a Jim Mattis or a Bob Gates.