DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company that sells its models through its own service and through platforms such as Vercel. In October 2026 the US Department of Homeland Security barred DeepSeek AI from civilian federal agencies. This page collects our reporting on DeepSeek releases, outages, prices and government action.
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US bans Deepseek from civilian agencies; China vows countermeasures The ban also covers other vendors' software built on Deepseek's open-source models, so the risk may sit inside products.Earlier reporting
US civilian agencies must remove DeepSeek, and products built with it A DHS order reaches vendors and contractors, but leaves the term "DeepSeek implementations" undefined DeepSeek releases the software it uses to run its AI models, free to reuse DeepInfer is open source under Apache 2.0. The code is free, but running it at scale still takes serious hardware. DHS bars DeepSeek AI from civilian federal agencies A Homeland Security order dated June 26 stops agencies buying DeepSeek products and tells them to remove existing ones. DeepSeek's leaner AI model hits Korean and Japanese chip stocks Samsung and SK hynix fell sharply on October 19 after DeepSeek released an updated model. DeepSeek swaps the model behind deepseek-flash; API name and price stay the same DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 reached users without any change on their side, and its benchmark scores come only from the company. DeepSeek says its new coding model builds whole projects from a short prompt The scores are the company's own. The changes to who reviews code, and which model you run, are yours to manage. Vercel adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 to AI Gateway Vercel says the minor update improves coding, reasoning, agent tasks and images; it gave no scores or price. DeepSeek adds web Search and Fetch APIs, 5 yuan per 1,000 calls The two new tools give agent and RAG apps live web content from the model vendor itself. DeepSeek apologises and refunds a week of use after 5-hour outage The Chinese AI firm's chatbot and API were down for nearly five hours on Thursday, and it will repay users in credits.Other trackers: PHP2Shell, Windows updates, Node.js security releases, eMudhra certificate compromise