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| The New York Stock Exchange last week. Seth Wenig/Associated Press |
China’s A.I. advances rattled the markets
Stocks sank yesterday in the U.S. as investors were shaken by the advances of the Chinese A.I. company DeepSeek. Primarily driven by tech stocks, the sell-off also dented market indexes in Europe and Japan.
DeepSeek claims to have matched the abilities of cutting-edge chatbots while using far fewer specialized computer chips. That threatens the power and prospects of tech giants in the U.S. and elsewhere.
The chipmaker Nvidia plunged more than 16 percent yesterday, erasing hundreds of billions of dollars in market value. The Nasdaq dropped about 3 percent.
Jason Karaian, our deputy Business editor, told me that analysts were calling DeepSeek’s emergence a “slap in the face” for investors, who may now be reassessing their expectations for big returns from the A.I. race. Here’s what to know about DeepSeek.
Tech competition: Last week, President Trump signed an executive order intended to speed the development of A.I., as the U.S. tries to maintain dominance in the field. DeepSeek’s apparent advances, despite U.S. efforts to limit the sales of powerful chips to China, “was as much a jolt to Washington as to Wall Street,” Jason said.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, Rabble-Rousing Leader of French Far Right, Dies at 96
He ran unsuccessfully for the French presidency five times, riding waves of discontent and xenophobia as the leader of the National Front party.
法國極右翼煽動性領袖讓-馬裡·勒龐去世，享年 96 歲
他作為國民陣線黨領袖，在不滿和仇外情緒的浪潮中五次競選法國總統，但都未成功。
To be a movie star of Robert Pattinson’s caliber means understanding that a walk down the street is itself a series of decisions: Assuming you’re seen and recognized, how will you appear? Cool? Dignified? Goofy? Approachable? Make the wrong choice and you’re pilloried on social media; make the right one and you’re praised.
成為像羅伯派汀森這樣的電影明星意味著要明白，走在街上本身就是一系列的決定：假設你被看見並被認出，你會如何出現？涼爽的？凝重？高飛??？平易近人嗎？做出錯誤的選擇，你就會在社群媒體上受到嘲笑；做對了，你就會受到讚揚。
goofy
/ˈɡuːfi/
adjective
informal
1.
North American
foolish or
harmlessly eccentric.
2.
having or displaying
protruding or
crooked front teeth.
Conor Lamb Wins Pennsylvania House Seat, Giving Democrats a Map for Trump Country
By ALEXANDER BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN
Mr. Lamb’s performance in a southwestern Pennsylvania House race rattled Republicans and showed Democrats how to win back Trump voters.
Politicians across the globe are struggling to deal with complex questions with no easy answers. They are not helped by populist rabble-rousers peddling magic-bullets that can't work
http://econ.st/1NjVDIU
More than 800,000 car-lovers have flooded into Cobo Hall for this year's Detroit motor show. Premium carmakers have been busily launching an unprecedented number of new models, such as the new Mercedes-Benz GLA, a small SUV and BMW’s 2 and 4 Series, that reasonably well-off motorists might aspire to own. But a carpark-full of new models are also being launched for the very wealthiest drivers
http://econ.st/15vjPXq
That's two million dollars please
OVER the past week, more than 800,000 car-lovers have flooded into Cobo Hall for this year's Detroit motor show. But before the rabble arrived an elite...
ECON.ST
Paris Pillories CEO Kron in Alstom Fray
Executive Is Tarred as Turncoat as GE, Siemens Vie for French Company's Energy Business
By Stacy Meichtry and Inti Laundaro
April 29, 2014 4:45 p.m. ET
PARIS—Alstom SA Chairman and Chief Executive Patrick Kron—once hailed as a hero of French industry—suddenly is being tarred as a turncoat.
On Tuesday, French Economics Minister Arnaud Montebourg said he had asked France's stock-market regulator to ensure that Alstom devotes ample time and gives equal treatment to rival efforts by U.S.-based General Electric Co. and Siemens AG of Germany to buy the French industrial conglomerate's...
Giorgio Perottino/Reuters
By RACHEL DONADIO
ROME — A protest party led by Beppe Grillo, a comedian turned
rabble-rouser, has drawn broad support, buoyed by scandals that have
rattled voters’ faith in government.
Writer Peter Drucker witnessed a Nazi rabble-rouser in Germany say: "We don't want higher bread prices, we don't want lower bread prices, ...
主要作者 Mayo, Elton, 1880-1949 書名/作者
The social problems of an industrial civilization : with an appendix on the political problem / by Elton Mayo ; foreword by J. H. Smith出版項 London : Routledge, 1998
p.49
We have an economics that postulates a disorganized
rabble of individuals, competing for scarce goods; and a politics that postulates a "community of individuals" ruled by a Sovereign State. Both these theories foreclose on and discourage an investigation of the facts of social organizations.
In another time, Stew Parnell, the man whose peanut butter killed eight people and sickened 550 more, would have been put in the
stocks or the pillory. Congress didn't have such tools at its disposal yesterday, so lawmakers did the modern equivalent: They put him through the walk of shame.
Orders for business jets nose-dived after lawmakers pilloried auto executives for flying to Washington. to seek a bailout. Now, one jet maker is striking back.
For eight months now, Mr. Einhorn, a
rabble-rousing hedge fund manager, has pilloried the venerable
Lehman Brothers in an effort to drive down the bank’s stock price, which he is betting against.
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
Herman Cain became badly flustered when asked to assess President Obama’s policy toward Libya.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"Members of Congress are playing with people's lives, not just their own political careers. While they are rattling on among themselves down there in Washington, people are suffering."
MARTIN J. BONIFANTI, a fire chief in Pennsylvania, on aid to flood victims that is being delayed as Congress debates the budget.
"I didn't want to rattle the kids. I wanted to project a sense of calm."
Protests
rattle regime but Egypt's activists lack leadership
The violent protests that have rocked Egypt's major cities have also
rattled President Hosni Mubarak's regime. But analysts say the forces
behind the unrest lack a cohesive leadership which could push for real
change.
The prospect of deep losses and the abrupt announcement that a Toyoda would return to power, after people from outside the family had run the company for 14 years, have jolted the auto giant in the same way that
looming bankruptcy ha
s rattled Detroit automakers.
cohesive
The capability to cohere or stick together to form a mass.
[形]
1 粘着性［結合力］のある；《物理学》凝集力のある
cohesive action
凝集作用. 2 密着した, 団結した, まとまりのある.
rattle (WORRY)
verb [T]
to worry someone or make someone nervous:
The creaking upstairs was starting to rattle me.
rattle
(răt'l) 
v.,
-tled,
-tling,
-tles.
v.intr.
- To make or emit a quick succession of short percussive sounds.
- To move with such sounds: A train rattled along the track.
- To talk rapidly and at length, usually without much thought: rattled on about this and that.
v.tr.
- To cause to make a quick succession of short percussive sounds: rattled the dishes in the kitchen.
- To utter or perform rapidly or effortlessly: rattled off a list of complaints.
- Informal. To fluster; unnerve: The accident rattled me. See synonyms at embarrass.
n.
- A rapid succession of short percussive sounds.
- A device, such as a baby's toy, that produces short percussive sounds.
- A rattling sound in the throat caused by obstructed breathing, especially near the time of death.
- The series of horny structures at the end of a rattlesnake's tail.
- Loud or rapid talk; chatter.
[Middle English ratelen, perhaps from Middle Dutch, probably of imitative origin.]
rat·tle2 (răt'l)
tr.v.,
-tled,
-tling,
-tles.
To secure ratlines to (shrouds).
[Back-formation from
rattling, ratline, variant of
RATLINE.]
,
-tered,
-ter·ing,
-ters.
To make or become nervous or upset.
n.
A state of agitation, confusion, or excitement.
[From Middle English flostring, agitation, probably of Scandinavian origin.]
rabble Show phonetics
group noun [C usually
singular] DISAPPROVING
a large noisy uncontrolled group of people:
The defeated army returned home as a demoralized rabble.
He views his opponents as a mindless rabble.
rabble-rouser
noun [C]
a person who makes speeches that make people excited or angry, especially in a way that causes them to act as the person wants them to:
Johnson was unpopular with the management because he was a well-known rabble-rouser.
[動](自)民衆を扇動する.
rábble-ròuser
[名]（政治的な）扇動家.
rabble-rousing
adjective [before noun]
a rabble-rousing speech
stocks Show phonetics
plural noun
(in Europe in the Middle Ages) a wooden frame which was fixed around someone's feet, hands and sometimes head, so that they were forced to sit or stand for a long time in public as a punishment
【史】（the ～s） （罪人の）さらし台;
pillory
verb [T]
to severely criticize someone, especially in a public way:
Although regularly pilloried by the press as an obnoxious loudmouth, he is, nonetheless, an effective politician.
pil・lo・ry
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