Runtime 001: Execution Started.

In this week's episode packed with content, Sophia Tung and Zac Hall dive deep into the current state of DeepSeek joining the AI race, NVIDIA and OpenAI's responses, and the status of AI tools today; the biggest tech surprise of the week that has us both excited and worried, and more.

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