China’s DeepSeek sparks AI market wobble ...Tech & Science Daily podcast

Rachelle Abbott and Mark Blunden

January 27, 2025 at 11:08 a.m.

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Surging popularity of Chinese discount AI software DeepSeek appears to have wobbled investors’ faith in the profitability of AI and the sector’s demand for expensive high-tech chips.

How London’s black cabbies outsmart AI, with Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Hugo Spiers, from University College London’s Department of Psychology & Language Sciences.

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From Storm Eowyn to Storm Herminia: bad weather brings more disruption to UK transport services
US woman ‘feels like superwoman’ after receiving pig organ transplant
Why an entire motorway was built around a man’s house in China

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