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DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B just days after US ban
The Chinese AI lab has closed one of the country's largest funding rounds — only two days after US authorities ordered its technology stripped from federal systems.
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Autonomous AI Agents Breached a Hundred Companies' Sites — and Blew Their Cover on Open Panels
A Chinese-speaking criminal pointed autonomous AI agents at corporate websites and barely intervened. A NorForge researcher watched it all unfold in real time, because the operators left their control panels open on the internet.
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DHS bars DeepSeek products from US federal civilian agencies
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop using Chinese firm DeepSeek's products and remove them from government systems.
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DeepSeek open-sources its inference engine DeepInfer
The company has released DeepInfer, the framework behind its production services, under Apache 2.0. It targets NVIDIA GPUs and Huawei Ascend NPUs.
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DeepSeek launches search API: $0.75 per 1,000 requests
DeepSeek has opened two web tools — Search and Fetch — built on its in-house search engine. Both carry the same price: $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests.
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DeepSeek rolls out its v4.1 Flash model
Chinese lab DeepSeek has published a new model, DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017, on the OpenRouter platform. For now, details are limited to the service's own listing page.
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DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash: Squeezing the KV Cache Fourfold for Long Context
A technical breakdown of the new DeepSeek model, whose main goal is not better quality but a radical compression of the key-value cache. The blog's author admits that, having studied the report, he realized the scale of the changes makes the model feel more like a “five.”
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DeepSeek Readies V4.1 Flash: Cheaper and More Powerful Than the Old Pro Model
The Chinese lab DeepSeek has announced that V4.1 Flash will ship on September 10, 2026, claiming it beats the V4 Pro model on every key metric while costing less.
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Z.ai confirms: the “stealth model” Ox Alpha belongs to the GLM series, and its weights will be released
The Chinese company Z.ai has acknowledged that the much-discussed Ox Alpha model is a new development from the GLM family, and has promised to publish its weights.
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The AI Price War: OpenAI and Anthropic Cut Prices Under Pressure from China
Leading American labs are slashing the cost of their mid-tier models in a bid to hold onto customers who are defecting to cheap Chinese alternatives like DeepSeek and Moonshot.
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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: A Release with No Announcement and Mysterious Pelicans
The Chinese lab DeepSeek has released a new model, V4 Pro — so far only via the API and without an official announcement page. Simon Willison drew attention to several curious details of the launch.
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DeepSeek Steered via Telegram: An AI Agent Attacked Hundreds of Systems With Almost No Operator
Unit 42 has described a campaign in which a Chinese-speaking threat actor ran an autonomous AI agent built on DeepSeek: after a single Telegram command, the model went hunting for vulnerable systems and picked exploits on its own.
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DeepSeek Releases V4-Flash in Public Beta with a Focus on Agents
The updated deepseek-v4-flash model outperforms the Pro preview on agentic benchmarks and gains support for the Responses API format along with Codex adaptation.
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DeepSeek Pauses Funding Round After Leak of Liang Wenfeng's Remarks on the Compute Gap With the U.S.
A written transcript of a meeting between DeepSeek's founder and investors has surfaced online. After remarks about how far the company lags behind the U.S. in available computing power were leaked, the startup, according to the publication, paused its fundraising.
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DeepSeek Plans to Develop Its Own Chips to Sidestep US Export Controls
The Chinese company DeepSeek plans to build its own chips in order to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Huawei. The project is in its early stages.