Monday 27th January 2025
Re: Monday 27th January 2025
A Good Read --
The Westminster whistleblower: how my friend Sergei tried to expose the Kremlin plot against Britain
Russian-born UK citizen and Tory party activist Sergei Cristo fought to make MI5 sit up and take notice of the Russian political interference operation now threatening democracy in Britain – and around the world
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... SApp_Other
The Westminster whistleblower: how my friend Sergei tried to expose the Kremlin plot against Britain
Russian-born UK citizen and Tory party activist Sergei Cristo fought to make MI5 sit up and take notice of the Russian political interference operation now threatening democracy in Britain – and around the world
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... SApp_Other
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AnatolyKasparov
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Re: Monday 27th January 2025
For anyone wondering why I didn't contribute more to the weekend thread, power was cut off for 24 hours from Saturday night!
Re: Monday 27th January 2025
Glad to hear it was nothing worse AK .AnatolyKasparov wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2025 3:53 pm For anyone wondering why I didn't contribute more to the weekend thread, power was cut off for 24 hours from Saturday night!
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Re: Monday 27th January 2025
Nvidia's lost $500bn from it's market cap, with the release of this Chinese AI. I do hope that Labour are paying the slightest bit of attention to what's going on and are revising their plans to give them all our data.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qw7z2v1pgo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qw7z2v1pgo
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The spectacle of so many politicians bandwagon-jumping to push up the price of snake-oil has been most gratifying ! Not to mention those 'wise' investors RR is so eager to entice to the UKrefitman wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:22 pm Nvidia's lost $500bn from it's market cap, with the release of this Chinese AI. I do hope that Labour are paying the slightest bit of attention to what's going on and are revising their plans to give them all our data.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qw7z2v1pgo
To put it very mildly !AI chipmaker Nvidia had plunged 16% midway through trading on Monday while rival Broadcom had slumped 17.8%.
Other tech firms also sank, with Microsoft down 3.7% and Google's owner Alphabet down over 3%.
In Europe, Dutch chip equipment maker ASML saw its share price tumble by more than 7% while shares in Siemens Energy, which makes hardware related to AI, plunged by a fifth.
"This idea of a low-cost Chinese version hasn't necessarily been forefront, so it's taken the market a little bit by surprise," said Fiona Cincotta, senior market analyst at City Index.
Re: Monday 27th January 2025
Bit more about that, and Tesla versus the world , sales looking very sick indeed .... a good overview on a channel I hadn't watched before --
AI at a twentieth the price, and cars at less than half, interesting buys when the world's consumers are feeling the pinch .
Meanwhile in UK, Company investing £80mn in a special new paintshop for customised jobs on the cars of the super-rich ...