Be in the know. 15 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Alibaba springs a Lunar New Year surprise on DeepSeek, global AI market (scmp)
  2. GDP grew at a 2.3% pace in the fourth quarter, less than expected (cnbc)
  3. 10-year Treasury yield slides after weaker-than-expected GDP (cnbc)
  4. Fed holds rates steady, takes less confident view on inflation (cnbc)
  5. “Alibaba on Jan. 29 unveiled a new version of its AI model called Qwen2.5 Max that it claims has performance comparable or better than OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google and Meta models.” (investors)
  6. Nvidia Stock Falls. What Microsoft and Meta Earnings Mean for the AI Chip Maker. (barrons)
  7. Fed Stands Pat on Rates, Entering New Wait-and-See Phase (wsj)
  8. OpenAI says DeepSeek stole its AI data, but how common is ‘distillation’? (scmp)
  9. Chinese tech giant flexes its muscles in global race for AI dominance (foxbusiness)
  10. They Invested Billions. Then the A.I. Script Got Flipped. (nytimes)
  11. Why blocking China’s DeepSeek from using US AI may be difficult (reuters)
  12. Most Popular Hedge Funds Don’t Want Your Money But Smaller Firms Might (bloomberg)
  13. The White Lotus Is Already Driving a Travel Boom in Thailand (bloomberg)
  14. ECB warns of ‘headwinds’ to Eurozone economy as it cuts rate to 2.75% (ft)
  15. Why some ‘Magnificent Seven’ companies could be earning less in 2050 than today (marketwatch)