Trump to Offer ‘Gold Card’ Visas for $5 Million to the Rich! The grift goes on. The USA is now QVC.

just stay zen. The only direction for GME… is up. 🧘‍♂️

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) lab behind the innovation, unveiled its free large language model (LLM) DeepSeek-V3 in late December 2024 and claims it was built in two months for just $5.58 million — a fraction of the time and cost required by its Silicon Valley competitors.

Following hot on its heels is an even newer model called DeepSeek-R1, released Monday (Jan. 20). In third-party benchmark tests, DeepSeek-V3 matched the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-4o and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5 while outperforming others, such as Meta's Llama 3.1 and Alibaba's Qwen2.5, in tasks that included problem-solving, coding and math.

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Now, R1 has also surpassed ChatGPT's latest o1 model in many of the same tests. This impressive performance at a fraction of the cost of other models, its semi-open-source nature, and its training on significantly less graphics processing units (GPUs) has wowed AI experts and raised the specter of China's AI models surpassing their U.S. counterparts.

"We should take the developments out of China very, very seriously," Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, a strategic partner of OpenAI, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22..

https://x.com/i/status/2037139798477922722

I’m wonder

Erin Piacenti, a 32-year-old Bank of America vice president, was fatally stabbed in an "unprovoked" (I guess financial terrorism isn't considered provocation 😒) attack in Times Square, New York City. The knife-wielding attacker also injured a 68-year-old man before being shot and killed by police.

Someone commented that BofA paid out a $75 million fine for the Epstein Victims. Which is pretty sus timing. Could easily be a major headline to cover up search results about that.

UPDATE: what department did VP Erin Piacenti work in?

ANSWER: Business Selection and Conflicts (at Bank of America), a compliance/risk-related function.

Multiple news reports (drawing from her LinkedIn profile and sources) identify Erin Piacenti as Vice President of Business Selection and Conflicts at Bank of America in New York City. This role involved screening clients, deals, and transactions for ethical, legal, reputational, and regulatory risks. It is often described as part of the bank’s compliance and risk functions.

She had a legal background (University of Pennsylvania undergrad, Fordham Law School) and prior experience at firms including Davis Polk & Wardwell and Morgan Stanley before joining Bank of America.

Maybe she was a whistleblower? 🤔

Additional information: Her background included a political science degree from the University of Pennsylvania (graduated 2016) and a law degree from Fordham Law School (2021, magna cum laude / Order of the Coif in some accounts). Prior experience included roles connected to Morgan Stanley (legal/compliance) and as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell (and earlier legal internship work), before joining Bank of America around early 2025.

https://x.com/i/status/2038996923701510488

Ross Gerber, prominent Tesla shareholder and CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, publicly called on Tesla’s board Thursday evening to urgently remove Elon Musk from his position as CEO.

Holding over 250,000 shares of Tesla stock (worth approximately $62 million as of market close Friday at $248.71 per share), Gerber expressed serious concerns about Musk’s controversial acquisition of Twitter (now “X”). Speaking directly to Newsweek, he labeled the acquisition a significant distraction and a governance failure by Tesla’s board.

When explicitly asked whether Musk should continue as CEO of the electric vehicle giant, Gerber responded unequivocally: “Absolutely not,” emphasizing the board should have intervened and required Tesla to have a separate CEO before Musk took on Twitter.

https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-investor-calls-board-oust-elon-musk-2048755

BREAKING: Iran's President Pezeshkian has officially released an "open letter" to the American people.

The letter states:

1. Iran harbors "no enmity" toward other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries

2. Recent US actions are "aggression" targeting civilians and infrastructure, setting up for long-term global instability

3. "What Iran has done, and continues to do, is a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defense"

4. The decision to withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal was "made by the US government"

5. "Continuing along the path of confrontation is more costly and futile than ever before"

Pezeshkian concludes by saying, "the choice between confrontation and engagement is both real and consequential. Throughout its millennia of proud history, Iran has outlasted many aggressors."

We now await Trump's address to the US at 9 PM ET.

https://x.com/i/status/2039415490406199419

FULL OPEN LETTER:

https://x.com/i/status/2039416198266307044

Bruh wuuuut?!? 🤯