For the past year, Silicon Valley’s favorite cope was pretending DeepSeek was just setting piles of VC money on fire to subsidize cheap tokens and undercut US labs

Turns out, they weren’t burning cash—they were just better at math!

DeepSeek just open-sourced the actual production engine behind their API (DeepInfer and deepseek-recipe), casually dropping datacenter receipts along the way:

155 trillion tokens/day served at an estimated ~80% gross profit margin 👀
~$38/hour generated per GPU, even factoring in off-peak discounts 👀

How are they printing money while charging pennies? The difference comes from actual systems engineering instead of just yelling "scale it -Baby" and begging for $7 trillion

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Architecture:
– Slices heavy prompt reading in half
– Wide Expert Parallelism: Smoothly distributes massive MoE workloads across 128 GPUs without choking on interconnect bottlenecks
– DSpark Speculative Decoding: Eliminates wasted compute cycles during generation
– Bounded Replay: Handles massive long-context conversation memory almost instantaneously
– Geopolitical Hedge Built-In: Native day-one support for both NVIDIA Blackwell and Huawei Ascend 950 – Export controls? Try me

At this point, it’s pretty obvious: DeepSeek is actually doing what "Open"AI spent years pretending to be—before Sam & Co. locked the weights in a vault, slapped a $200/month price tag on a wrapper, and pivoted to working for the Pentagon and lobbying Washington for a regulatory moat

If you want a no-fluff technical breakdown of how their inference stack actually works under the hood (and what critical datacenter pieces they wisely kept private), check out this breakdown by WhatsWithAI 👇

https://t.co/mttwgXIlWE

— StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭 (@StarboySAR) October 24, 2026

MrP, you asked to search out a specific document in German and hopefully get a proper translation for us.  I am falling over my fingers.

The second link is not available – document is not there.  The next link (3rd) and I am not sure if this is the doc that you meant, is by Udo Ulfkotte.  Is that the document?  It is a pdf which makes translating a challenge.  In fact, my translate button is not even available for that one.   But if that is the correct document, I can download it and push through with another translator (I think).

Alternative is to do a AI search for similar content by the lady that you mentioned, and get an AI translation.

A good document is what we need.  Or a good description and good name of the author.  I don’t recognize a good document because my German is forgotten at school.  What is next?

Major Tech PHP debacle that grew runner’s legs over the past 24 hours: Companies have tech teams working on this. We have Jewel, Periol and to a limited extent, myself.

This is just a smidgen of what is happening in Asia and of course something similar in Europe and everywhere else as well:

Governments and companies worldwide are racing to patch vulnerabilities in the widely used PHP programming language after experts reported a surge in exploit attempts.

The flaws had lurked in the software for years before being uncovered using AI. PHP developers released urgent fixes on Wednesday, urging all users to update immediately.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said attempts jumped from thousands in the 10 hours before disclosure to tens of thousands within 45 minutes, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.

The reaction:

🔴 South Korea raised its private-sector cybersecurity alert level

🔴 Japan’s MUFG bank temporarily suspended some internet services; the Finance Ministry also suspended some online services

🔴 China’s industry ministry urged immediate inspections and upgrades

For us — message from Jewel:

ALL DONE!

We work with mostly free and open source software. It is the nature of the internet. Imagine a major number of the equivalent of script kiddies tackling the whole internet stack with AI, to find more vulnerabilities.

Periol was quite right to show serious concern (outright panic and I joined him in that last evening, when I started thinking it through), and we’ve not even thought it through properly. I add my voice to his and perhaps we’ve glimpsed the top of an iceberg. AI groups are now tackling banks and individual accounts.

No .. an antiship cruise missile – formal release.

Well, this is a sheer horror novel.

On the Telegram data disclosure – What is reported is a little hysterical. Telegram has to comply with local law. So, this is their policy:

• Private chat contents (standard cloud chats and end-to-end encrypted “Secret Chats” are generally not handed over as part of these routine data disclosures, though Telegram’s standard chats are client-server encrypted rather than end-to-end encrypted by default).

Conditions for Disclosure

• Telegram reviews requests to ensure they are valid legal orders from relevant judicial authorities (such as court orders under the U.S. Stored Communications Act or European legal frameworks).
• The user must be a confirmed suspect in a case involving criminal activities that violate Telegram’s Terms of Service.

So, what is Telegram to do? What is the alternative if faced with a valid court order? I don’t see any. They cannot tell all of the courts in all of the lands to sod off.

Russia back in the day wanted all the data, chats as well from any Ukrainian – a mass data disclosure. That is why Durov left Russia and is why Russia is still red-hot angry with him. Telegram refused that request, and slowly it started combining a legal request with what is in Telegram’s ToS.

Durov explains the sequence currently: Over the last two years, we have seen a pattern emerge in multiple countries: Telegram is quietly pressured to grant political favors — such as illegal censorship or surveillance. When we refuse, local media and “non-governmental” organizations launch orchestrated campaigns portraying Telegram as a cesspool of crime, from child pornography to terrorism.

Our moderation is no worse than that of other major platforms. Yet these campaigns instill the idea that Telegram should be persecuted or restricted.

Suddenly, officials start caring about crime and protecting children — but only on platforms that reject their secret political demands. Platforms that accept such deals get away with almost anything — including literally selling ads promoting child pornography.

https://t.me/durov/544

I still cannot see alternatives for Telegram. They’ve been holding out a long time and what they have to give, they give drip by drip if the data requested violates their own Terms of Service. How honest the process is, I cannot comment on of course. We don’t know. There is two sides of this story and those that regularly complain, have no alternative and follow the media that wants to kill Telegram – because it is titillating stuff.

Russia in my view mismanaged this thing and because of this, lost the technology. Now, they have to rebuild technology and from what I see, I struggle these days to post up quite a bit of Russian data, as they are going their own way. Now they have Max – years behind Telegram, even with TG’s generally clunky interface.

Periol posted a tweet on Trump disrespecting his MAGA audiences and this tweet has something like 2K responses, of which most are horrified about this disrespect.

Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 16 October 2026

So, I wanted to take a quick look through the responses, but soon forgot my objective as I came across this and had to spend some time laughing.

That The Islander sounds very wrong today.  And the supposed Sinaloa cartel sicarios sound like Colombians pretending to be Mexican – the accents are just overdone!  Americans know little about cartels but they fly to conclusions.  That is a cartel to cartel conversation and nothing to do with Mexican Helicopters and so on.,  How many times a day do the cartels attack Mexican helicopters?  You’ll not find much of that.

Geez, look at the comments.  There are so many comments that those are not Mexicans from Sinaloa.