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DeepSeek 12-hour outage leaves millions cut off, sparks complaints as rivals gain ground

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek suffered a prolonged outage overnight that extended into early Monday morning, disrupting service for hundreds of millions of users, according to a company notice and user feedback. The Hangzhou-based AI lab’s namesake chatbot website and app were offline from Sunday evening, with the company continuing to investigate while issuing fixes from between 1am and 9am on Mo...

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Indonesian killed in Lebanon while on UN peacekeeping mission

The UN peacekeeping ⁠mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said ⁠a peacekeeper was killed when a ⁠projectile exploded at one of its positions near the southern Lebanese village of Adchit al-Qusayr on Sunday. Another peacekeeper was critically injured, it said in a statement early on Monday. Indonesia’s foreign ministry said on Monday the deceased peacekeeper was one of ‌its citizens and that three others were injured by indire...

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‘Suspicious’ voting procedures at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court estate, resident says

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. An independent committee analysing the circumstances behind an inferno in Hong Kong that killed 168 people is holding the fifth session of its evidential hearing on Monday, with the company responsible for Wang Fuk Court’s fire safety systems to testify. Another seven residents ar...

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DeepSeek 12-hour outage leaves millions cut off, sparks complaints as rivals gain ground

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Taiwan’s Kuomintang leader to visit mainland China to aid ‘peaceful’ relations: Beijing

Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan’s opposition party Kuomintang (KMT), will lead a delegation to mainland China next month at the invitation of Beijing, her first visit since assuming the position in November. Song Tao,...

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Hong Kong-listed Insilico Medicine signs AI drug development deal with Eli Lilly

Insilico Medicine has signed a potential multibillion-dollar deal with Eli Lilly to license out an early-stage drug pipeline and provide its artificial intelligence platform services in research and development collabora...

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