DeepSeek's chatbot suffers seven-hour outage in China

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- DeepSeek's chatbot suffered a major outage of over seven hours in China (Bloomberg).
- The outage was the biggest since the chatbot's debut in 2025 (Bloomberg).
- The downtime is considered unusual for a globally used application (Bloomberg).
Why it matters: DeepSeek's chatbot experienced over seven hours of downtime in China, disrupting services for its users.

