China has shown the world artificial development  can be done on the cheap, opening the door for Australia to catapult itself into a new digital Cold War.

DeepSeek – which was until last week a  little-known Chinese AI model – has emerged as a strong challenger  to the US’s tech goliaths and its dominance of AI. Crucially, it’s shown that companies no longer need the deep pockets of Silicon Valley to develop top technology. DeepSeek cost only $US5.6m ($9.1m) to train but matches America’s best, including ChatGPT.

So does that mean we’re about to see ‘‘Matilda’’ – Australia’s answer to ChatGPT – lighting up screens soon?

Telstra has hit back at claims that it is ‘taxing’ Australians  by charging up to 24 per cent more for mobile phone plans than its rivals, as a new price war erupts between the nation’s three biggest telcos.

Is bigger always better? Intrigued to find out, we took a seat on a sofa in front of Hisense’s latest but maybe not the greatest enormous TV. The 110UX.