Listen : Watch : Read #8

Originally Posted: February 2, 2025 here

Beyond my own personal news this week, the world went DeepSeek crazy!, here's what I chose to tune in to get up to speed on it, its impact and where you can find out more.

🎙️Listen 🎙️ all the usuals, plus...

Harry Stebbings 20VC took to an emergency episode of the pod with Jonathan Ross , CEO of Groq on DeepSeek. This is a great listen. NVIDIA lost and recovered the combined value of the US Auto Market (excluding Tesla).. Did we all over react? Has everything changed?

And to give an idea of where and quickly this changed everything, its already available on Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure . Heres how to enable it on both Google

The same for Microsoft

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Want to hear more about the new Executive Orders on AI and Crypto, then David O. Sacks re-joins the besties to explain what they are for specifically and their intention. Jump to 1hr 50 in to go straight to it.

A little light relief with this one, for anyone with parents struggling with technology. Donna Scully I'm looking at you too! Irish Comedian, David O'Doherty tells it straight - I genuinely think I have had all of these over the last few weeks..

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Much has been talked about with regards to the changing role of new media. I couldn't agree more. Never so important given the recent US election and the rise of Podcasts and YouTube shows. Both the Financial Times and Bloomberg dig in further on this with some great insights here. Thanks John Froese for sharing the first one.

And Bloomberg taking about folks like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul, both of whom attended the President's Inauguration

Outside of Inauguration, Tariffs and DeepSeek, the global Auto Industry is going to remain interesting over the coming years. EV manufacturer Canoo goes bust after a move to Texas... EV's are inevitable still in my mind (I'm on my 3rd)

General Motors has been banned from selling car data for 5 years. Huge kudos here goes to The New York Times investigative reporter, Kashmir Hill who broke this story originally

Full article here in the The New York Times

And back to the UK, the UK Treasury has stepped in to protect car loan firms. This one feels like the PPI Scandal all over again with many legal firms and more offering to chase your case for you... My Instagram and Facebook feeds are full of adverts for this.

I'm not for a minute saying folks shouldn't be made aware or we shouldn't be transparent. Quite the contrary - I'd almost argue was it a mis-selling or a mis-buying? I can't help but think most people either didn't know or didn't really care - the only thing they were interested in is in getting a new car at an affordable price (understandable). Sounds like Insurance sometimes. For years we have know the auto finance market in the UK was in a bubble, something had to burst it - I thought it was going to be interest rate rises.

For more background on this check here. As a reference point the PPI (Payment protection insurance) mis-selling scandal cost over £50bn. This cost will only end up in one place. I'll give you one guess!

And as always, to end on a high note - excited to see this!

Thanks as always!, until next time! Nigel