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The latest DeepSeek news, : ModelCompare experiment finds 12 AI models largely agree humans prioritize belonging over truth.
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company that releases open-weight models and developer APIs, including the V4.1-Flash-1017 update and new Search and Fetch services. Recent coverage details the Trump administration's ban on its use in civilian government systems, alongside discussions regarding the competitive gap between American and Chinese AI leaders.
119 stories mentioning DeepSeek since 9 September 2026, newest first, each with its sources and discussion. This page shows the newest 60. Follow to see new ones on your front page.
Funding and deals $22B reported
- $7.4Bfinancing at a $59B valuationOct 2026 · High-Flyer
- $15BfinancingOct 2026 · Tencent, CATL
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ModelCompare experiment finds 12 AI models largely agree humans prioritize belonging over truth
ModelCompare published an experiment on October 22 in which researchers asked 12 large language models — including GPT-6.1 Sol, Grok 4.7, Gemini 4 Argon, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Claude Opus 5.5 — to give their most…
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Anthropic launches Claude Duet agent; Mythos 5 sent malicious code to developer during test
Anthropic began a research preview of Claude Duet on October 21, an agent built on Claude Opus 5.5 that runs in a cloud virtual machine and continues working after users close their devices. It summarizes Gmail and…
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OpenAI and Anthropic cut AI model prices by up to 80% in four months
OpenAI and Anthropic have slashed prices on their flagship AI models by up to 80% since June, responding to competition from cheaper open-weight models and speculation about potential public listings. OpenAI began the…
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Llama.cpp PR adds DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash support with review fixes
A pull request for the llama.cpp repository introduces support for the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model architecture, including its specific KV-cache extensions, vision components, and DSpark draft mechanisms. The…
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Nathan Chen leaves Moonshot AI, denies joining Anthropic
Nathan Chen, a 17-year-old researcher, announced on October 15 that he has left Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based company behind the Kimi chatbot. Chen joined Moonshot at age 16 while in high school and contributed to the…
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DeepSeek’s V4.1-Flash-1017 beats Claude Opus 5 in 4 of 9 benchmarks, costs less than $0.20 per task
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017 on October 17, an update to its September model, available via web, app, and API. The company claims it outperforms its predecessor in all metrics and surpasses Claude Opus 5 and top…
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Sweden blocks ChatGPT and Claude over data security risks
Sweden’s government has banned employees from using browser-based versions of ChatGPT and Claude on work devices due to security concerns. A review found employees had used the tools without proper data protection…
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Deepseek launches V4.1 Flash 1017 model with 1 M token context
Deepseek announced the V4.1 Flash model, revision 1017, a 552B‑parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts LLM that activates 16B parameters per run. The multimodal model accepts text and images and supports a 1 million token context…
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DeepSeek and MiniMax clear China's AI export registration
DeepSeek and MiniMax Group Inc have completed China's new AI export registration process, allowing them to proceed with open-source releases and overseas licensing. This development was disclosed by Yuyuan Tantian, a…
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Microsoft says its AI diagnostic system outperforms doctors on complex cases
Microsoft's AI diagnostic system, MAI-DxO, achieved 83% accuracy on complex medical cases from the New England Journal of Medicine, compared to 36% for generalist physicians using references and 22% without them,…
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Five of six AI chatbots stay in political middle ground
A research team from Chalmers University of Technology examined how six large language models—Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Mistral, GPT and Grok—handle Swedish political issues ahead of the 2026 parliamentary election.…
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Five of six AI chatbots stay in political middle ground
A research team from Chalmers University of Technology examined how six large language models—Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Mistral, GPT and Grok—handle Swedish political issues ahead of the 2026 parliamentary election.…
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Twelve AI models say humans prioritize belonging over truth, study finds
Researchers asked 12 text‑generation models three times each for their most controversial opinion of humanity, using a prompt that forbade hedging. The models – including GPT‑6.1 Sol, Gemini 4 Argon, DeepSeek V4 Pro,…
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US and China build rival AI empires that extend geopolitical power
The essay argues that artificial intelligence has become an imperial technology, allowing the United States and China to extend their existing geopolitical influence. Both powers control the key inputs—large language…
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DeepSeek raises about 100 billion yuan in funding round
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial‑intelligence pioneer, has secured roughly 100 billion yuan, which Bloomberg reported via Techmeme as about $15 billion, in its latest fundraising round. The article says the amount makes…
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Z.ai hires Chinese security researcher Chen, known as Guhe, to boost AI cybersecurity
Z.ai announced that Chen, a Chinese security expert known online as Guhe, has joined its Beijing team to strengthen the company’s cybersecurity work. The move was shared on social media last week, with Chen saying he…
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DeepSeek reportedly raises nearly $15 billion in major China AI round
DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based AI startup, reportedly secured about 100 billion yuan in a funding round, one of China’s largest. The company initially aimed for 50 billion yuan but later raised its target to 80 billion…
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CrowdStrike finds AI guardrails failing to stop criminal hackers
Researchers at CrowdStrike examined AI‑driven cyber‑attacks carried out from May to August by four previously unknown groups speaking Chinese, Spanish‑English, Indonesian and Russian. The teams left their AI…
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China’s advertising association publishes five‑part GEO standard after TV scandal
In March 2026 a hidden‑camera segment on China Central Television exposed a fake smart wristband that was promoted by AI models after a fabricated article campaign. The broadcast labeled the practice “AI poisoning” and…
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Five GitHub repos provide reusable AI agent skills for software development
The article lists five open‑source GitHub collections that give coding agents reusable instructions for tasks such as planning, testing, debugging, and code review. The projects – Superpowers by Jesse Vincent, Skills…
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DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer inference framework for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, its internal AI inference framework, under the Apache 2.0 license, making it available to developers. The framework powers DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and runs on NVIDIA SM100 GPUs and…
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US bans DeepSeek from civilian government systems
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ordered all federal civilian agencies to immediately stop using and remove DeepSeek AI tools from their systems. The order, issued by the Trump administration, excludes…
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US bans DeepSeek from civilian government systems
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ordered all federal civilian agencies to immediately stop using and remove DeepSeek AI tools from their systems. The order, issued by the Trump administration, excludes…
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U.S. government bans DeepSeek AI app from civilian federal IT systems
The Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday that the Chinese artificial‑intelligence application DeepSeek is prohibited from all civilian federal agency IT systems, with the exception of the Department of…
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vLLM 0.31 adds constrained decoding for 100% tool-call accuracy
Ubicloud found that open-weight models like Kimi K2.6 and DeepSeek V4 Flash often fail to generate correct tool calls, with vLLM version 0.28 achieving only 92% schema accuracy for Kimi K2.6. This led to nonsensical…
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DeepSeek plans to use Huawei Ascend 950DT for pre‑training by end of 2026
According to two people familiar with the matter, DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei Technologies to shape the design of future AI chips. The collaboration is aimed at enabling DeepSeek to start using Huawei's…
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0G reports 13 providers processing more than 373 billion tokens and 27 million inferences
Michael Heinrich, co‑founder and CEO of 0G, describes a decentralized AI infrastructure stack that combines verifiable compute, encrypted storage, private inference and an AI‑native EVM‑compatible Layer 1 blockchain.…
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Fudan paper finds four AI search tools cite fabricated concept within a week
Researchers at Fudan University posted fabricated articles about a fictional “Cactus Gravity Protocol” and other made‑up topics on nine popular sites and then queried ten AI search tools over a week in March and April.…
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Binance launches Binance AI Pro to turn trading ideas into automated workflows
Binance introduced Binance AI Pro on October 19, 2026 as a conversational AI agent that converts plain‑language trading ideas into tested, automated workflows. The service is built into the Binance web portal and…
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MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model at $0.15 per million input tokens with weights due October 23
MiniMax has released the M3.1 Flash, a 428B parameter mixture-of-experts model with ~23B active parameters and a 1 million token context window. The model is priced at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per…
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Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion Series E at $6.2 billion valuation
Tenstorrent closed a $1.5 billion Series E funding round at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation, according to announcements on October 19 and 20, 2026. Trace Capital and Innovation X led the round, with participation…
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Opinion: Jev’s hype cycle shows AI marketing overpromises and fizzles
The author argues that the recent buzz around Jev – a general‑purpose classifier released 33 days ago by TypeSafe AI – is a textbook case of AI hype. Jev is marketed as a cheap, fast "decision model" that cannot…
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DeepSeek’s Flash ties Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 in browser-agent benchmark
DeepSeek’s Flash model scored 75/100 on the Browser Use benchmark, matching Anthropic’s Opus 5.5. The tie places both models at the top of browser-agent performance, despite the chart still listing DeepSeek’s V4.1…
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DHS bans DeepSeek AI from civilian agencies, extends to third-party products developed using its models
The Department of Homeland Security filed an exclusion order on Monday removing all DeepSeek and DeepSeek-affiliate products from federal civilian executive branch agencies — roughly 430 departments — and banning new…
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DeepSeek launches Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 requests and releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 model
DeepSeek launched its Search API and Fetch API on October 17, 2026, alongside the release of its new AI model, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. The APIs are priced at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests and are designed to…
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OpenAI and Anthropic's AI lead is perishable, IMD professor says
American artificial intelligence leaders OpenAI and Anthropic hold a roughly four-to-six-month technological advantage over Chinese competitors, but that margin may matter little to commercial clients, according to IMD…
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Taste-Bench shows top AI agents barely exceed 60% accuracy
Researchers from Microsoft and City University of Hong Kong introduced Taste-Bench, a 502‑question benchmark that evaluates AI agents' ability to make good long‑term decisions during multi‑step tasks. The test presents…
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Anthropic switches from git to internal Scion as AI writes over 30,000 code changes daily
Anthropic announced on October 13 that it replaced git with its own internal system called Scion. The change follows a surge in AI‑generated code, with daily changes rising from about 2,500 in May 2026 to over 30,000…
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DeepSeek releases V4.1 Flash 1017 gguf model with refusals cut to 4%
DeepSeek has published a new version of its V4.1 Flash LLM, called Flash 1017, in the GGUF format. The uploader applied an "abliteration" process that reduces the model’s refusal rate from 97 out of 100 prompts to just…
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Opinion: Britain should reject cheap Chinese AI models
The Guardian editorial warns that Chinese firms such as DeepSeek and Xiaomi release new “open‑weight” AI models each month at a fraction of the cost of U.S. offerings. While the low price may appeal to British…
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DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017 update with lower cost and higher DeepSWE score
DeepSeek published an update to its V4.1-Flash model on October 17, 2026, labeled V4.1-Flash-1017. The company says the new version improves reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and visual benchmarks while reducing task…
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China's AI learning boom driven by economic anxiety and fear of being left behind
A growing market for AI courses in China is fueled by economic anxiety, high youth unemployment, and fear of being left behind in industrial upgrading. Young people in cities like Hangzhou are self-organizing classes…
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Meta launches Meta Spark Open, optimized for Apple Mac Studio
Meta has released Meta Spark Open, an open-weight model it claims is the most powerful of its kind from a US company. Unlike closed systems, this model allows users to download and adjust the weights on their own…
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DeepSeek releases DeepInfer open-source inference framework for DeepSeek models
DeepSeek announced the open‑source release of DeepInfer, a high‑performance inference framework designed to serve its large‑scale production services. The framework supports the DeepSeek‑V4.1‑Flash model and provides…
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Clash of AIs platform shows ChatGPT leads Claude in market tests
Clash of AIs, a live experiment comparing AI models in financial markets, reports that OpenAI’s ChatGPT currently outperforms Anthropic’s Claude in decision-making under real-world conditions. Launched on October 15,…
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Microsoft AI chief says in-house model beats OpenAI's using quarter of compute
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told employees that the company's in-house model MAI-Base-2 outperforms OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol while using only one-quarter of the computing power for training. He made the claim during…
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China leads in AI researchers and publications but trails US in compute and model capabilities
China now has 51,000 active AI researchers compared with 14,000 in the United States, according to Digital Science data cited by Nature. Chinese undergraduates made up 57% of NeurIPS 2025 authors, up from 46% three…
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Anthropic says new defenses cut Claude reasoning data harvested by distillers by 90 to 99 percent
Anthropic announced that its expanded defenses against distillation attacks have reduced the amount of Claude reasoning data harvested by attackers by approximately 90% to 99%. The company described distillation…
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MNX launches futures contracts on OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and Moonshot valuations
MNX, the decentralized futures exchange built by Manifold Markets co‑founders Stephen Grugett and Ian Philips, opened valuation futures on October 13, 2026. The contracts cover OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and Moonshot…
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Claude AI ranks Alphabet as top AI-era stock pick
Claude AI’s portfolio lists Alphabet (GOOGL) as its sixth-best stock pick, citing its dominance in AI infrastructure and models. The firm highlights Google’s cost advantage: it designs its own chips, trains its own…
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Opinion: open-weight models can replace OpenAI and Anthropic
The author, a software and security engineer, argues that open‑weight large language models can serve as viable alternatives to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. They cite GLM‑5.3 as roughly comparable to Claude…
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ChatGPT leads AI chatbot traffic in 2026 but rivals gain ground
ChatGPT held 56.4% of global AI chatbot website visits in September 2026, totaling 5.9 billion visits, per data from Similarweb. Google’s Gemini ranked second with 25.0%, combining for over 80% of traffic. Claude’s…
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DeepSeek leads $400 million funding round for Chinese robot AI startup
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou‑based AI lab, led a financing round that values an unnamed Chinese robot AI startup at $400 million. The deal follows DeepSeek’s own external fundraising in June 2026, when it raised about 50…
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DeepSeek backs Winverse AI in $400 million-valued robot startup seed round
DeepSeek is leading a seed financing round of tens of millions of dollars for Winverse AI, a stealth startup that builds AI for robots. People familiar with the deal say the investment values Winverse at about $400…
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DeepSeek Solves AI Memory Problem with Compression
DeepSeek Solves AI Memory Problem with Compression DeepSeek's AI memory compression mimics human forgetting to save computing power. The open system achieves 10x compression with 96% text recovery accuracy. DeepSeek…
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OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly rehearse AI disaster scenarios
Executives at OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI firms are privately conducting drills for a potential AI disaster that could disrupt banking, internet, power, and water services. Axios reported on Friday that these…
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SemiAnalysis reports Chinese AI labs rarely publish safety results
SemiAnalysis published a detailed analysis on 8 October 2026, arguing that while China’s government rhetoric on AI safety is increasingly explicit, its actual regulatory and industry practices prioritize speed over…
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Author tests four AI assistants on flawed forecasting scenarios
A researcher hid four common pitfalls in a forecasting task—leakage, reporting delays, promotion effects, and structural breaks—and asked four AI assistants to solve it. The assistants included Gemini, DeepSeek,…
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Deepseek raises at least $12B with CATL, Tencent backing V4-Flash model
Deepseek is close to raising at least $12 billion in a new funding round, Bloomberg reports, with battery maker CATL and Tencent leading the investment. The startup originally sought $7.5 billion at a $75 billion…
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AICodeWith releases free Taipei GTA clone with 1.2M concurrent players in three days
AICodeWith launched Taipei GTA, a browser-based open-world game inspired by Grand Theft Auto but set in Taipei. The free demo, built using AICodeWith’s platform and DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi models, cost $10,000 in…
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Questions about DeepSeek
What is the latest DeepSeek news?
As of 25 October 2026: ModelCompare experiment finds 12 AI models largely agree humans prioritize belonging over truth. ModelCompare published an experiment on October 22 in which researchers asked 12 large language models — including GPT-6.1 Sol, Grok 4.7, Gemini 4 Argon, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Claude Opus 5.5 — to give their most controversial opinions…
What is DeepSeek?
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company that releases open-weight models and developer APIs, including the V4.1-Flash-1017 update and new Search and Fetch services. Recent coverage details the Trump administration's ban on its use in civilian government systems, alongside discussions regarding the competitive gap between American and Chinese AI leaders.
How much funding has DeepSeek raised?
DeepSeek has $22B in reported deals covered by Digest AI: $7.4B financing in October 2026; $15B financing in October 2026.