3 Things To Know Today

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1 ICE Arrested 1,179 Undocumented Immigrants Yesterday Alone

Immigration and Customs Enforcement continued to pick up the pace on arrests yesterday, taking 1,179 undocumented immigrants into custody yesterday. That’s an increase from the 956 arrests made on Sunday, and comes as evidence that President Donald Trump’s call to increase the number of arrests is being listened to. According to Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum, her country has received 4,094 migrants who have been deported since January 20th. Most of those received by Mexico are Mexican nationals, but even though Sheinbaum said four planes with deportees arrived in her country over the weekend, there hasn’t been a “sustained increase” of deportations to Mexico. Speaking to the House Republican Members Conference Dinner yesterday, Trump said it’s not just illegal immigrants he wants gone. Trump said he wants to deport repeat criminal offenders who are in the US legally, saying “I don’t want these violent repeat offenders in our country any more than I want illegal aliens from other countries who misbehave.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent an additional 400 soldiers from bases in Fort Worth and Houston to assist Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley yesterday to support the president’s mission to “secure the border.”

2 Rollout Of Chinese AI DeepSeek Leads To Huge Losses On Wall Street

It was not a good day on Wall Street yesterday, with a lot of tech stocks plummeting over the course of the day. Much of the blame for yesterday’s losses is on the launch last week of Chinese AI DeepSeek. Nvidia, which is the most popular supplier of GPUs used by artificial intelligence Large Language Models, saw its shares fall 17-percent yesterday, losing $600-billion in value…the single biggest one-day loss for a company in the history of the stock market. Broadcom also dropped 17-percent on the day, and electricity generator Vistra fell 28-percent. The overall NASDAQ index dropped three-percent, or 612 points, and the S&P 500 lost 1.5-percent. DeepSeek is a private Chinese company founded in 2023 that has shot to the top of app stores this week. The AI uses its resources differently than other LLMs like OpenAi’s ChatGPT, allowing it to function faster while using less resources. David Sacks, a venture capitalist named by President Donald Trump to oversee AI and cryptocurrency policy, said yesterday that the new app “shows that the AI race will be very competitive.”

3 Google Says It Plans To Use Trump's New Names For Denali And The Gulf Of Mexico

Get ready for a Google Maps update. The company said yesterday that it’ll be updating its maps to use the names Mount McKinley and Gulf of America for the currently-named Denali and Gulf of Mexico. The executive order signed by President Trump on January 20th ordered the interior secretary to make the name changes within 30 days, and Google says it’ll update its maps once the changes are officially made. Because of the executive order, the names will be changed in the federal Geographic Names Information System, and Google said it has a long-standing policy of “applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.” The search giant also said that if the new names aren’t recognized outside the US the accepted names in each country will continue to show for them on Google Maps.


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