Hall of Fails — January 2025
6 items this month across all lanes. Ranked by lane weight × log(engagement + 5 × 🔥) × thumbnail bonus; ties by id. All months.
AI Fails & Slop
AI Incidents & Outages
AI Bubble & Money
DeepSeek Won't Sink U.S. AI Titans
Panic fueling the selloff of Nvidia, Broadcom and other tech giants is overblown.
Swiss franc, Japanese yen Rise as DeepSeek News Boosts Safe Havens
The Yen and Swiss Franc were stronger against the dollar as investors sought safe havens after Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s new AI model hit U.S. tech stocks.
Stocks Sink in Broad AI Rout Sparked by China's DeepSeek
U.S. stocks were mostly lower, with the Nasdaq leading declines as makers of AI infrastructure suffered steep falls, many in the double digits. Nvidia was down 16%.
Now Wanted in Silicon Valley: Ho-Hum Businesses With Thin Profit Margins
Venture-capital firms are bringing AI and dealmaking to accounting, property management and other unglamorous fields.