The launch of DeepSeek’s cost-effective AI assistant in China, has sent shockwaves through global markets, leading to a record $593 billion loss for Nvidia and a 3.1 per cent drop in the Nasdaq. As investors recalibrate,

Apple emerges as a “relative winner” as DeepSeek shifted investor narratives on AI, wrote Morgan Stanley analysts led by Brian Nowak in a Tuesday note to clients, explaining Apple’s “AI ambitions are far more contained” than the other “magnificent seven” American tech leaders.

Short sellers of artificial intelligence-related stocks raked in bumper profits after the smashing debut of low-cost AI models from China's DeepSeek spooked Wall Street, with bets against Nvidia yielding record profits totaling more than $6 billion.