DeepSeek, an AI startup just over a year old, has stirred awe and consternation in Silicon Valley with its breakthrough artificial intelligence model that offers comparable performance to the world's best chatbots at seemingly a fraction of the cost. Created in China's Hangzhou, DeepSeek carries far-reaching implications for the global tech industry and supply chain, offering a counterpoint to the widespread belief that the future of AI will require ever-increasing amounts of power and energy to develop.

In classic blockbuster film'The Matrix', humans are enslaved by AI because it wants our body heat to power its computers. While this sounds straight from the annuls of sci-fi, a physics professor says we may be living in a Matrix-style simulation. Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, thinks a series of daily clues suggest this world is not what it seems. Now, he has tackled the hypothetical and philosophical question: If we are living in a virtual simulation, what is the purpose of it? Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, he outlines three theories, including that we all chose at birth to become characters in an advanced AI world.

If you feel like you're living in a convincing virtual reality akin to The Matrix, a scientist thinks you may well be right. Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, claims our entire universe may be an advanced computer simulation. And the proof that this so-called simulation hypothesis is correct may be hiding in plain sight in the Bible. Professor Vopson told MailOnline: 'The bible itself tells us that we are in a simulation and it also tells us who is doing it. 'It is done by an AI – an artificial intelligence.'

"I hope I don't have to cover Elon Musk again for a while," I thought last week after I sent TechScape to readers. Then I got a message from the news editor. "Can you keep an eye on Elon Musk's Twitter feed this week?" I ended up doing a close-reading of the world's most powerful posting addict, and my brain turned to liquid and trickled out of my ears: His shortest overnight break, on Saturday night, saw him logging off after retweeting a meme comparing London's Metropolitan police force to the Nazi SS, before bounding back online four and a half hours later to retweet a crypto influencer complaining about jail terms for Britons attending protests. But somehow I was still surprised by what I found.

Why does AI being good at math matter? Last week the AI world was buzzing over a new paper in Nature from Google DeepMind, in which the lab managed to create an AI system that can solve complex geometry problems. This is the second time in recent months that the AI world got all excited about math. The rumor mill went into overdrive last November, when there were reports that the boardroom drama at OpenAI, which saw CEO Sam Altman temporarily ousted, was caused by a new powerful AI breakthrough. It was reported that the AI system in question was called Q* and could solve complex math calculations.

Python is one of the most popular programming languages in existence. Easy to learn and easy to use, it has been around for years, so there is a large community of Python developers to support each other, and it has built up an ecosystem of libraries that allow users to drop in the functionalities they need. It does, however, come with downsides: its programs tend to run slowly, and because it is inefficient at running processes in parallel, it is not well suited to some of the latest artificial intelligence (AI) programming. Hoping to overcome those difficulties, computer scientist Chris Lattner set out to create a new language, Mojo, which offers the ease of use of Python, but the performance of more complex languages such as C or Rust. He teamed up with Tim Davis, whom he had met when they both worked for Google, to form Modular in January 2022.

Teenagers deciding their future this year have a lot to contend with. In England, those who sat their A-levels suffered the biggest results drop on record while the top grades in GCSEs also fell. And now they face the question: will the career I choose to pursue even exist by the time I enter the workforce? Artificial intelligence has hit the mainstream with the popularity of generative AI programmes driven by large language models such as ChatGPT. Businesses are increasingly adopting the technology.

The burgeoning AI industry has barrelled clean past the "move fast" portion of its development, right into the part where we "break things" -- like society! Since the release of ChatGPT last November, generative AI systems have taken the digital world by storm, finding use in everything from machine coding and industrial applications to game design and virtual entertainment. It's also quickly been adopted for illicit purposes like scaling spam email operations and creating deepfakes. That's one technological genie we're never getting back in its bottle so we'd better get working on regulating it, argues Silicon Valley–based author, entrepreneur, investor, and policy advisor, Tom Kemp, in his new book, Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy. In the excerpt below, Kemp explains what form that regulation might take and what its enforcement would mean for consumers.

One of the fathers of artificial intelligence discusses the necessity of having regulations on AI technology.

The world is going nuts over AI and tools built on it. They plunge into this area and can't help consuming more and more info about it, and are even creating their own intelligent products. To help you catch up on the latest news on the AI industry, we've selected Twitter accounts that are both top-rated and trending. This account needs no introduction, as it is curated by the industry leader in AI. Getting the news straight from the horse's mouth is worth your time.