Bit by Bit is a weekly column focusing on technical advances each and every week across multiple spaces. My name is Adam Conway, and I've been covering tech and following the cutting-edge for a decade. If there's something you're interested in and would like to see covered, you can reach out to me at [email protected]. Just this week, DeepSeek R1 plunged the U.S. stock market into chaos and upstaged OpenAI at their own game. Its release wiped $1 trillion in valuations across the stock market, with $600 billion of that being Nvidia's own. Some have bounced back, and others are…



