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Episode 727: Some AI engines are free; others come at a hefty price (whether you want them or not)

The team discusses the disruptive emergence of China’s open-source DeepSeek AI engine, steep price hikes for Microsoft Office and Amazon’s vision for drones over Darlington. Our Hot Hardware candidate is the Toybox, a user-friendly 3D printer aimed at kids.

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  Episode 771: Is the kids’ social media ban fair dinkum?

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  Episode 770: ✅ If you like, I can generate hot singles in your area

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  Budget 2025 for tech: the good, the bad and the missing

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  Episode 768: You’ll have to talk to my agent

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  Episode 767: Steam Machine, ClickFix and Norfolk

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  Episode 766: A small church, two pubs and a data centre

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  Episode 765: Grokipedia's a Wikipedia copy, right?

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  Episode 764: Sorry, I can’t because of the Amazon outage

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  Episode 763: Microsoft's potty training

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  Episode 762: Don’t blame me, the AI was controlling my browser

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  Episode 761: Hey Google, are you actually going to be intelligent now?

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  Episode 760: Not content with taking our jobs, AI is now taking our CVs too

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  Episode 759: The dirty future of AI comes to Essex

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  Episode 758: For everyone who’s ever looked at an iPhone and thought “if o…

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  Episode 757: In which Google doesn’t have to sell Chrome after all

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  Episode 756: Life looks good at 100x zoom