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The Mad Botter·Hosted by Michael Dominick·602 episodes

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A weekly talk show taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development and the world of technology.

Why listen

Coder Radio is for developers who want the trade talk behind the tools, frameworks, companies, and business pressures shaping software work. Host Michael Dominick mixes pragmatic commentary with interviews featuring engineers, founders, and technical creators, so listeners get both hands-on context and opinionated industry perspective. It is a good fit if you like software conversations that connect code decisions to money, platforms, open source, and real-world developer careers.

Episodes

51 min
Jul 18, 2026Episode 654
Prof Andrew Seely

Prof Andrew on LinkedIn Mike on LinkedIn Coder Radio Discord Alderon Games Alice Pilot - Use Code Coder

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30 min
Jul 8, 2026Episode 653
Microsoft's Franck Pachot

How time's have changed - the show starts with a look at Microsoft's history and much improved position on Linux and open-source, some questionable statements on open-source by Anthropic's CEO and a little house keeping. Then, Franck Pachot joins Mike to discuss Microsoft's newly announced Horizon DB, some Postgres goodness, Azure and the open-source of it all. Frank on LinkedIn HorizonDB Coder Radio Discord Alderon Games Mike on LinkedIn The Mad Botter Promo - say "Coder" in your note

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29 min
Jul 3, 2026Episode 652
Ruby Native's Joe Masilotti

Joe on LinkedIn Ruby Native Coder Radio Discord Alderon Games Mike on LinkedIn The Mad Botter Promo - say "Coder" in your note

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26 min
Jun 15, 2026Episode 651
Carolina Code's Barry Jones

Mike sits down with Barry Jones to discuss the upcoming Carolina Code Conference. But first, we've got some Fabled News and WWDC News Sponsors Alderon Games The Mad Botter AI Offer Carolina Code Barry on LinkedIn Mike's Blog Coder Radio Discord

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19 min
Jun 7, 2026Episode 650
Meat Mike Is Back

The real Mike is back and he's finally covering the developer news - at least some of it - well it's mostly MSBuild but it's still fun! Mike's COSMIC Post Mike's MSBuild Post The boss bother you about AI? I've got you covered. TMB on AI

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2 min
Jun 1, 2026Episode 649
MikeBot Takeover!

Mike's out for some medical stuff this week, so I has better digital half am taking over to do what he lacked the courage to -- Defend the Phantom Menance! Am I factual? Am I LLM hallucinating? Who knows! This episode is brought to you by Day1.Bot — asset-readiness software from The Mad Botter. You know how every business has that one workflow held together by PDFs, spreadsheets, email threads, and someone named Dave who “just knows where everything is”? In construction, manufacturing, and facilities, that mess shows up when a project is technically complete — but operations still does not have what they need to maintain the equipment. The manuals are in someone’s inbox. Warranty dates are missing. Spare-parts lists are buried in a shared drive. PM guidance never made it into the CMMS. And six months later, everyone is asking, “Where is the documentation for this thing?”

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17 min
May 23, 2026Episode 648
System76's Britain Heaphy

Britain on LinkedIn System76 Coder Radio Discord The Mad Botter Data Platform Mike's Legacy Data Promo Mike's Blog

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18 min
May 6, 2026Episode 647
pgFirstAid with Justin Frye

Justin on LinkedIn pgFirstAid Coder Radio Discord The Mad Botter Data Platform Mike's Legacy Data Promo Mike's Blog

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24 min
Apr 22, 2026Episode 646
Shawn Hymel

Shawn on LinkedIn Shawn's Yotube Channel Coder Radio Discord The Mad Botter Data Platform Mike's Blog

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27 min
Apr 8, 2026Episode 645
Warp's Holmes & Llyod

Warp's Oz Ben on LinkedIn Zach on LinkedIn Coder Radio Discord The Mad Botter Data Platform Mike's Blog

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27 min
Apr 1, 2026Episode 644
Bryan Hyland on Open-Source

Mike sits down with renowned open-source and COSMIC DE contributer Bryan Hyland to discuss working on projects for Linux-forward companies and of course some Rust! Bryan's Site Bryan on LinkedIn Mike on LinkedIn Coder Radio on Discord The Mad Botter Inc Mike's Book Mike's Blog

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19 min
Mar 11, 2026Episode 643
Scott Kelly, CEO Black Dog Ventures

Scott on LinkedIn Black Dog Ventures Mike on LinkedIn Coder Radio on Discord The Mad Botter Inc Alice Limited Offer Mike's Book Mike's Blog

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17 min
Mar 5, 2026Episode 642
March Mailbag

Mike on LinkedIn Coder Radio on Discord Mike's Oryx Review Alice Alice Jumpstart Offer

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39 min
Feb 15, 2026Episode 641
Qdrant's Brian O'Grady

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-ogrady/ - my linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/qdrant/ - company linkedin https://qdrant.tech/contact-us - contact us https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/ - Qdrant GH https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant-edge-demo - Qdrant Edge running on smart glasses Mike on LinkedIn Coder Radio on Discord Mike's Oryx Review Alice Alice Jumpstart Offer Vorpal Mike in USA Today

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43 min
Jan 29, 2026Episode 640
The Modern .Net Shows' Jamie Taylor

Jamie's Links: https://github.com/github/spec-kit https://owasp.org/ https://bsky.app/profile/gaprogman.com https://dotnetcore.show/ https://gaprogman.github.io/OwaspHeaders.Core/ Mike on LinkedIn Coder Radio on Discord Mike's Oryx Review Alice Alice Jumpstart Offer

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17 min
Jan 21, 2026Episode 639
RubyLLM with Carmine Paolino

RubyLLM Carmine Chat With Work Carmine on X Mike on LinkedIn Coder Radio on Discord Alice Mike's 2026 Predictions Post Alice Jumpstart Offer

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27 min
Jan 12, 2026Episode 638
Cisco's ThousandEyes' Murtaza Doctor

ThousandEyes Murtaza on LinkedIn Internet Outages Map ThousandEyesJob Openings Mike on LinkedIn Coder Radio on Discord Alice Mike's 2026 Predictions Post Alice Jumpstart Offer

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46 min
Dec 23, 2025Episode 637
SEGA Christmas Special 25

Mike's Year End Post Mike on LinkedIn Mike's Blog Show on Discord Alice Promo Dreamcast assorted references: Dreamcast overview https://sega.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamcast History of Dreamcast development https://segaretro.org/History_of_the_Sega_Dreamcast/Development The Rise and Fall of the Dreamcast: A Legend Gone Too Soon (Simon Jenner) https://sabukaru.online/articles/he-rise-and-fall-of-the-dreamcast-a-legend-gone-too-soon The Legacy of the Sega Dreamcast | 20 Years Later https://medium.com/@Amerinofu/the-legacy-of-the-sega-dreamcast-20-years-later-d6f3d2f7351c Socials & Plugs The R Podcast https://r-podcast.org/ R Weekly Highlights https://serve.podhome.fm/r-weekly-highlights Shiny Developer Series https://shinydevseries.com/ Eric on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/rpodcast.bsky.social Eric on Mastodon https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast Eric on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-nantz-6621617/

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20 min
Dec 19, 2025Episode 636
Red Hat's James Huang

Links James on LinkedIn Mike on LinkedIn Mike's Blog Show on Discord Alice Promo AI on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Trust and Stability: RHEL provides the mission-critical foundation needed for workloads where security and reliability cannot be compromised. Predictive vs. Generative: Acknowledging the hype of GenAI while maintaining support for traditional machine learning algorithms. Determinism: The challenge of bringing consistency and security to emerging AI technologies in production environments. Rama-Llama it supports Podman, Docker, and various inference engines like Llama.cpp and Whisper.cpp. Production Path: The tool is designed to "fade away" after helping package the model and stack into a container that can be deployed directly to Kubernetes. Behind the Firewall: Addressing the needs of industries (like aircraft maintenance) that require AI to stay strictly on-premises. Enterprise AI Infrastructure Red Hat AI: A commercial product offering tools for model customization, including pre-training, fine-tuning, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Inference Engines: James highlights the difference between Llama.cpp (for smaller/edge hardware) and vLLM, which has become the enterprise standard for multi-GPU data center inferencing.

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17 min
Dec 12, 2025Episode 635
Tabnine's Eran Yahav

Tabnine Eran on LinkedIn Alice for Snowflake Mike on X Coder on X Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev

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22 min
Dec 5, 2025Episode 634
MongoDB's Frank Pachot

Frank on LinkedIn MongoDB Alice for Snowflake Mike on X Coder on X Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev Mike's Recent Omakub Blog Post

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25 min
Nov 21, 2025Episode 633
Hotwire Native with Joe Masilotti

Joe on LinkedIn Joe's Blog Joe on X Alice for Snowflake Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev Mike's Recent Omakub Blog Post

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21 min
Nov 12, 2025Episode 632
Graphite's Merrill Lutsky

Merrill on LinkedIn Graphite Alice for Snowflake Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev Mike's Recent Omakub Blog Post

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29 min
Nov 4, 2025Episode 631
Aeroview's Marc Weiner

Aeroview Marc on LinkedIn Alice for Snowflake Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev Mike's Recent Omakub Blog Post

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13 min
Oct 10, 2025Episode 630
Edward Schmitz

SigCore UC SigCore UC on Crowd Supply Alice for Power BI Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev Mike's Recent Omakub Blog Post

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30 min
Sep 29, 2025Episode 629
Tom Totenberg from LaunchDarkly

Mike sits down with Tom Totenberg to discuss disastrous Friday night deployments, selective feature flags, Launch Darkly and more general development goodness. Alice for Power BI Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev Mike's Recent Omakub Blog Post Tom's LinkedIn LaunchDarkly

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29 min
Sep 24, 2025Episode 628
Co-Pilot Vibe Coding

Alice for Power BI Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev

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43 min
Sep 3, 2025Episode 627
Event Modeling Pt2

Adam's Socials Adam on LinkedIn Event Modeling Understanding Event Modeling Adaptech Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Mike's Blog Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice

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36 min
Aug 27, 2025Episode 626
.Net 10 & C#14 With Nick Proud

Try Mailtrap for free Nick's Youtube Nick's Dometrain Course Nick on LinkedIn NexBotix Alice for Power BI Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev

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24 min
Aug 11, 2025Episode 625
Mailbag August '25

Mike reads your feedback for the month and answers your questions in here. There's a lot in here in particular some juicy AI stuff. Try Mailtrap for free Alice for Power BI Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev

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Aug 2, 2025Episode 624
Tampa Tech With Joey DeVilla

Joey DeVilla of Tampa Tech fame and accordion playing glory joins Mike to discuss the Tampa Tech scene, some Python goodness, a little Rust and much more. Try Mailtrap for free Joey's Blog Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice

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Jul 22, 2025Episode 623
Learn Linux TV with Jay LaCroix

Mike sits down with the the venerable Linux guru Jay LaCroix to talk transitioning to Linux, the state of desktop Linux and a little bit of retro-gaming. Try Mailtrap for free Jay on X Learn Linux TV Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice

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21 min
Jul 10, 2025Episode 622
Warp 2, Mr. Lloyd

*WARP PROMO CODE * coderradio Warp Zach on X Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice

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Jul 3, 2025Episode 621
WWDC 25 Special

Mike breaks down his highlights from WWDC Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Mike's Blog Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice Alice Forms Alice for FoxPro

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40 min
Jun 16, 2025Episode 620
Cloudflare's Sunil Pai

Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Mike's Blog Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice Alice Forms

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32 min
May 28, 2025Episode 619
Rogue Amoeba's Paul Kafasis

Paul's Links Rogue Amoeba Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Mike's Blog Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice Alice Forms

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28 min
May 14, 2025Episode 618
Github's Tim Rogers

Mike sits down with Github Product Manager to talk AI, vibe coding and dev in general. Mailtrap CoPilot Tim on Github Tim's Blog Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Mike's Blog Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice Alice Forms

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48 min
May 4, 2025Episode 617
West Point's Sean McBride

SPONSER LINK Mailtrap Sean on X Sean on LinkedIn Sean's Blog Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Mike's Blog Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice Alice Forms

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46 min
Apr 25, 2025Episode 616
Event Modeling with Adam Dymitruk

SPONSER LINK Mailtrap Adam's Socials Adam on LinkedIn Event Modeling Understanding Event Modeling Adaptech Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Mike's Blog Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice Alice Forms TMB Earth Day 2025 Competition

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25 min
Apr 17, 2025Episode 615
Vibe Easter 25

SPONSER LINK Mailtrap Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Mike's Blog Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice Alice Forms TMB Earth Day 2025 Competition

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38 min
Apr 10, 2025Episode 614
Packfiles.io's Charlton Trezevant

Charlton's Socials Packfiles.io Charlton on LinkedIn Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Mike's Blog Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice TMB Earth Day 2025 Competition

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45 min
Mar 31, 2025Episode 613
Intel Aflame

Mike sits down with Matt from Alderon games to talk a little game development, Path Of Titans and whole lot of Intel woes Alderon's Socials Alderon Games Matt on Twitter Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Mike's Blog Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice TMB Earth Day 2025 Competition

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39 min
Mar 24, 2025Episode 612
Framework's Matt Hartley

Mike sits down with Matt Hartley of Framework to discuss some of their exciting new announcements, some Linux goodness & of course an obligatory Rust shoutout. Matt's Socials LinkedIn Bluesky Framework Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Mike's Blog Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice TMB Earth Day 2025 Competition

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41 min
Mar 17, 2025Episode 611
System76's Carl Richell

Carl sits down with Mike to talk ARM on Thelio, Linux computing, a little Rust (of course), SCALE, COSMIC and more. Carl's Socials Carl on X System76 on X System76 Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Mike's Blog Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice TMB Earth Day 2025 Competition

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33 min
Mar 10, 2025Episode 610
RPA with Nick Proud

Nick's Socials Nick on LinkedIn Nick's Youtube Nick's Book NexBotix Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice

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Mar 5, 2025Episode 609
More Rust With Honey

For our listener Q&A, we tackle questions about the evolution of hybrid web/mobile app development, the licensing concerns around AGPL3.0 open-source projects, and the changing landscape of contract software development in a post-zero-interest-rate environment. We'll also discuss the current trend of AI integration and how developers can approach it effectively.

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Feb 24, 2025Episode 608
R With Eric Nantz

House Keeping Google / YouTube Update Join the Discord! Feedback Rust in the Linux Kernel. R Stuff What is R Again? Great presentation by John Chambers at UseR! 2006 https://www.r-project.org/conferences/useR-2006/Slides/Chambers.pdf The times have changed, now R is very much suited for production use and not just an academic research language Highly recommend reading Advanced R for more comprehensive details on the quirks of the language https://adv-r.hadley.nz/index.html R VS Python for Data? Different philosophies on the use of the language CRAN vs PyPi Interoperability becoming more mainstream now Visualization: R has always been leaps and bounds ahead (Grammar of Graphics, interactive widgets, etc) R Dev Stack? IDEs: RStudio, now Positron https://positron.posit.co/ Managing package installations with renv https://rstudio.github.io/renv/ Building web apps with Shiny: https://shiny.posit.co/ (I got so engrossed in this space that I created the Shiny Developer Series because of it) Early adopter of using Docker with R in devcontainers with VS-Code. New tech I’m excited about to enhance dev stacks and sharing apps WebAssembly with webR https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/ Shiny apps in webR? Yes you can https://github.com/RConsortium/submissions-pilot4-webR Managing dev environment combined with Nix: The rix package https://github.com/ropensci/rix (More organized links for show notes) R Language: https://r-project.org Posit (formerly RStudio): https://posit.co RStudio IDE https://posit.co/products/open-source/rstudio/ Positron (still in beta): https://positron.posit.co/ History of S and R presentation by John Chambers at useR! 2006: http://www.r-project.org/user-2006/Slides/Chambers.pdf Advanced R (2nd edition) by Hadley Wickham https://adv-r.hadley.

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31 min
Feb 16, 2025Episode 607
Warp's Zach Lloyd

Warp Zach on X Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice

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Feb 5, 2025Episode 606
Coder's Next Steps

A brief important update from Chris about some upcoming changes to the podcast.Links:Michael Dominick on X

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46 min
Jan 29, 2025Episode 605
The Democrats Behind DeepSeek

DeepSeek has everyone freaking out; we'll look at what's legitimately fascinating, what bits have been an overreaction, and the big mistake that made this all possible. Plus, there's some bad news for Java fans.Sponsored By:Bitcoin Well: Bitcoin sent directly to your wallet is the safest way to buy Bitcoin. Immediate settlement, direct to self-custody. Supports the Lightning Network. Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjarLinks:💥 Gets Sats with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — The fastest and safest way to buy Bitcoin in Canada and the USA. With self-custody built in. 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost with Fountain.FM and kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution! 🚀 Report: 88% of companies are contemplating leaving Oracle Java — 72% of respondents were already thinking about it when surveyed in 2023. State of Java 2025 - Azul Report — Insights from over 2,000 Java users across six continents to reveal 2025 Java trends that are shaping key areas of enterprise technology. Nvidia sheds almost $600 billion in market cap, biggest drop ever — The sell-off, which hit much of the U.S. tech sector, was sparked by concerns about increased competition from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek. DeepSeek’s AI Model Tests Limits of US Curbs on Nvidia Chips <a title="DeepSeek-V3 Tech

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