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DeepSeek’s bombshell claim of a dirt-cheap, world-class artificial intelligence rig blew a $600 billion hole in Nvidia market value Monday. America’s confidence in its AI lead over China seems to have vaporized like our atomic chauvinism after the 1949 Russian A-bomb test. The DeepSeek news came two weeks after the outgoing Biden administration tightened controls on computer chip exports.