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      "body": "Good morning. It's ten past six in the morning on Sunday the 18th of October."
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      "body": "This is Not Perfect News. I'm James."
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      "body": "And I'm Julie."
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      "body": "Here are today's main stories."
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      "body": "European diplomats have been attacked by Israeli settlers while visiting the occupied West Bank."
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      "speaker": "James",
      "startTime": 31.24,
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      "body": "Donald Trump has waived sanctions on Russia amid a growing rift with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy."
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      "speaker": "James",
      "startTime": 38.25,
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      "body": "Violent protests and mass arrests have swept France as demonstrators demand cost of living action."
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      "speaker": "James",
      "startTime": 44.54,
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      "body": "Coming up, artificial intelligence, technology, and today's feature: DeepSeek Releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and Opens Search Engine to Developers."
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      "speaker": "James",
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      "body": "This programme is researched and voiced using AI, and every source is on our website."
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      "body": "Here's Julie with the world news."
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      "speaker": "Julie",
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      "body": "Thanks, James. Masked Israeli settlers have attacked a delegation of European diplomats, a French mayor, and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank."
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    {
      "speaker": "Julie",
      "startTime": 73.16,
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      "body": "United States President Donald Trump has issued an executive order pausing several Russia sanctions on national interest grounds."
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      "body": "An estimated five hundred and fifty thousand people have taken part in violent protests across France demanding cost of living action."
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      "body": "Here's James with the UK news."
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      "body": "Thanks, Julie. A Reform UK candidate and a councillor have been caught making racist remarks in an undercover investigation."
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      "body": "The party insists there is no room for racism, and councillor Alan Feeney has now resigned."
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      "body": "The Scottish National Party has begun its campaign for a second independence referendum with one hundred thousand pounds in funding."
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      "body": "Former officials warn the UK must protect infrastructure from Russian hybrid threats as international sanctions tensions rise."
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      "body": "Here's Julie with the technology and AI news."
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      "body": "Thanks, James. An Austrian member of the European Parliament has called for stronger Union measures after discovering non-consensual nude deepfakes of herself online."
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      "body": "Lena Schilling learned last month that the manipulated images were circulating."
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      "body": "Anthropic says an internal artificial intelligence model has solved a twenty-four-year-old cryptographic mystery."
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      "body": "The Claude model traced the origin of five security curve seeds back to a standard random number generator."
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      "body": "Meta has removed website scraping terms from its commercial rules following concern from publishers."
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      "body": "The company insists the revision does not change how it uses web crawlers."
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      "body": "Here's James with today's feature."
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      "body": "Thanks, Julie. The artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek has released a brand new model."
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      "body": "It is called DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and is available right now."
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      "body": "You can find it on their own platforms as well as Hugging Face and ModelScope."
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      "body": "Crucially, the repository and model weights have been released under an open MIT License."
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      "body": "Alongside this model release, the company is also opening its in-house search engine to external developers for the very first time."
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      "body": "This gives outside creators direct access to tools that were previously kept strictly in-house."
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      "body": "For developers, this release is another step in the fast-moving race to make artificial intelligence faster and cheaper."
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      "body": "DeepSeek states that the new model brings noticeable improvements across reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and visual benchmarks."
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      "body": "The company also highlights significant reductions in task execution time and output length."
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      "body": "Optimists point out that an open-weight release under an MIT License provides accessible tools for the wider developer community."
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      "body": "They argue that leaner and faster models point toward much more efficient artificial intelligence deployment overall."
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      "body": "At the same time, sceptics urge caution regarding rapid model iterations and long-term governance."
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      "body": "Potential data security risks linked to platform usage also warrant closer scrutiny following reports of data breaches."
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      "body": "Independent verification of these new benchmark performance claims against larger rival models remains ongoing."
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      "body": "As development continues, observers will be watching to see how competing developers react to the new search engine access."
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      "body": "Independent tests will soon confirm whether the performance advantages hold up in everyday use."
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      "body": "That question of scale versus pure efficiency is central to the debate right now."
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      "body": "Engineers are looking closely at whether smaller models can reliably replace massive architectures."
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      "body": "Sources across the tech sector note that leaner deployments could significantly cut operational costs for startups."
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      "body": "At the same time, technical analysts emphasize that benchmarks do not always reflect real-world production demands."
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      "body": "They suggest that teams must thoroughly test the search engine integration before relying on it for critical applications."
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      "body": "Industry watchdogs also reiterate that robust data governance frameworks remain essential as these tools evolve."
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      "body": "Open access and faster processing speeds are great, but only if they come with robust security behind them."
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      "body": "It certainly keeps the big players on their toes, does it not."
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      "body": "Indeed it does, and at this speed, by tomorrow there will probably be another version."
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      "body": "Thanks, James. Before we go, a reminder of today's main stories."
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      "body": "European diplomats have been attacked by Israeli settlers while visiting the West Bank."
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      "speaker": "Julie",
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      "body": "Donald Trump has waived Russia sanctions amid a growing rift with Volodymyr Zelenskyy."
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      "body": "You'll find all our sources, the transcript and chapters at news.notperfect.biz."
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      "speaker": "Julie",
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      "body": "This programme is made with AI, so please check the linked sources for anything important."
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      "speaker": "Julie",
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      "body": "That's all from us this morning. I'm Julie."
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      "speaker": "James",
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      "body": "And I'm James. Thanks for listening, and goodbye."
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