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Germany tells Apple, Google to remove DeepSeek from the country’s app stores

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Germany has told Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI app DeepSeek from their app stores in the country, saying the app transfers users’ information to China illegally, Reuters reported. Meike Kamp, Germany’s data protection commissioner, told the companies that DeepSeek did not provide “convincing evidence” that users’ data was protected as required by EU […]

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DeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU

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DeepSeek’s updated R1 reasoning AI model might be getting the bulk of the AI community’s attention this week. But the Chinese AI lab also released a smaller, “distilled” version of its new R1, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, that DeepSeek claims beats comparably-sized models on certain benchmarks. The smaller updated R1, which was built using the Qwen3-8B model Alibaba

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DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model is more censored, test finds

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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s newest AI model, an updated version of the company’s R1 reasoning model, achieves impressive scores on benchmarks for coding, math, and general knowledge, nearly surpassing OpenAI’s flagship o3. But the upgraded R1, also known as “R1-0528,” might also be less willing to answer contentious questions, in particular questions about topics the

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DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

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DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its

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DeepSeek updates its R1 reasoning AI model, releases it on Hugging Face

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Chinese startup DeepSeek has released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model on the developer platform Hugging Face after announcing it in a WeChat message Wednesday morning. The updated R1, which is under a permissive MIT license, meaning it can be used commercially, is a “minor” upgrade, according to DeepSeek’s WeChat announcement. The

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DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

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DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its

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Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says 

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Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use DeepSeek due to data security and propaganda concerns, Microsoft vice chairman and president Brad Smith said in a Senate hearing today. “At Microsoft we don’t allow our employees to use the DeepSeek app,” Smith said, referring to DeepSeek’s application service (which is available on both desktop and mobile.) Smith

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