<p>Scaredy Cats The release of DeepSeek's R1 model has precipitated an existential crisis in Silicon Valley, whose executives are now begging the government to protect their AI companies from scary Chinese competition. While some tech leaders are outwardly praising DeepSeek's achievements, they are in the same breath demanding even tighter export controls on Nvidia's AI chips to prevent them from reaching China. "Well-enforced export controls are the only thing that can prevent China from getting millions of chips, and are therefore the most important determinant of whether we end up in a unipolar or bipolar world," wrote Anthropic CEO Dario […]</p>