Resources to learn more about Chinese AI company DeepSeek

2025 Edelman’s Trust Barometer reveals high levels of global population discontent with governments, businesses, and the wealthy | Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman leaves The New York Times and launches newsletter on Substack

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Clara Nafría & Ismael Nafría
January 29, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

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  • Resources to learn more about Chinese AI company DeepSeek

  • 2025 Edelman’s Trust Barometer reveals high levels of global population discontent with governments, businesses, and the wealthy

  • Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman leaves The New York Times and launches newsletter on Substack

Resources to learn more about Chinese AI company DeepSeek

This past Monday, shares of American company Nvidia fell more than 16% in what was the largest single-day loss of value for a company in stock market history: nearly 600 billion dollars. Other technology stocks linked to AI also suffered significant drops.

What was the reason? The emergence in the market of a young Chinese AI company called DeepSeek that has reportedly managed to create a very powerful and competitive AI model but with a much lower investment than what major US AI companies have had to make.

Millions of users have rushed in recent days to test DeepSeek's AI through its website or app. In fact, the DeepSeek app has positioned itself as the most downloaded in the App Store these days, ahead of ChatGPT. 

What do we know about DeepSeek? What does their AI offer? Does it really compete in quality with ChatGPT, Gemini, or other prominent solutions offered by major AI tech companies?

In On The Net Today we have selected a series of articles published these days that help to clearly answer all these questions.

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2025 Edelman’s Trust Barometer reveals high levels of global population discontent with governments, businesses, and the wealthy

Global communications firm Edelman published a few days ago its annual trust barometer, the Edelman Trust Barometer, which celebrates its 25th edition in 2025.

This year's edition reveals a high level of discontent from the global population towards government, business, and the wealthy. 61% of respondents have a moderate or high sense of grievance, defined by the belief that government and business make their lives harder and serve vested interests, and wealthy people unfairly benefit from the system.

"In the last decade, society has moved from fear to polarization and grievance," stated Richard Edelman, CEO of Edelman.

This year's report shows that, of the four institutions analyzed, business remains the most trusted institution for the global population. 62% trust businesses, a percentage that is one point lower than last year.

NGOs rank second: 58% of the population trust them, also one point less than the previous year.

Governments and media generate the least trust: 52% of the population, just over half, trust them. Governments rise one percentage point compared to the previous year, and media, two.

To mark its 25 years of publication, the Edelman Trust Barometer offers this year a special report that shows the evolution of trust indicators over the years and reveals some of the major global trends related to trust. Specifically, it identifies these five:

  • Trust expands from traditional authority figures to peers

  • Trust inequality grows between high and low-income households

  • Businesses have the highest trust and greater expectations to lead

  • Lack of credible information sows division

  • Political and economic polarization weakens the social fabric

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman leaves The New York Times and launches newsletter on Substack

Economist and Nobel Prize winner in Economics Paul Krugman, who has been an Opinion columnist for The New York Times for the past 25 years, has recently relaunched his newsletter on Substack, where he now publishes articles independently almost daily.

Krugman published his first column in the NYT on January 2, 2000. You can read it at this link:

His last one was published on December 9, 2024:

This is how the NYT announced Krugman's departure:

A few days ago, Krugman explained in Columbia Journalism Review magazine the reasons why he stopped publishing his opinion columns in the Times and chose to launch his own newsletter on Substack: 

And this Tuesday, in an article published in the newsletter The Contrarian, they provided a more detailed explanation of his departure from the NYT.

Departing the New York Times

I left to stay true to my byline

contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times

Paul Krugman's Substack newsletter quickly surpassed 100,000 readers. This past Tuesday, it already had 139,000 subscribers. Krugman's daily articles are free to access, although the author has also launched a paid subscription that will offer some additional content in the future.

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