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

A Chinese AI start-up's 12-hour outage left hundreds of millions of users without service, with the company investigating and issuing fixes, prompting complaints and gains by rivals.

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