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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology

Get ahead of the tech curve: aim for Hangzhou, not Silicon Valley

The building housing the headquarters of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is seen in Hangzhou, in China
The headquarters of DeepSeek, the AI-powered chatbot, in Hangzhou, in China. Photograph: Agatha Cantrill/AFP/Getty Images

Rachel Reeves is behind the tech curve in proposing to create “Europe’s Silicon Valley” (Report, 28 January). She should surely be considering an equivalent of Hangzhou, home of DeepSeek, the company that knocked $1tn off the value of US tech stocks in a day.
John Lowery
London

• A “spectacular” vertebra has been “found online” (Report, 28 January). Given the recent changes to Meta, I doubt it was Mark Zuckerberg’s.
Dr Jonathan J Ross
Sheffield

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