NNA - Oil prices fell about 2% to a two-week low on Monday as news of surging interest in Chinese startup DeepSeek's low-cost artificial intelligence (AI) model prompted concerns over energy demand to power data centers.

Before the news of DeepSeek broke, oil was already trading lower on weak economic data from China and worries that U.S. President Donald Trump'sproposed tariffs could further pressure economic growth and energy demand.--Reuters 

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