A little over two weeks ago, a largely unknown China-based company named DeepSeek stunned the AI world with the release of an open source AI chatbot that had simulated reasoning capabilities that were largely on par with those from market leader OpenAI.

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A cybersecurity company specialising in mobile app security has confirmed that the DeepSeek app on iPhones and iPads is sharing sensitive data over unprotected channels, which leaves user data vulnerable to anyone capable of monitoring the network traffic.