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China’s DeepSeek AI models expand into home appliances
Chinas joyful embrace of DeepSeek has gone one step deeper - extending to TVs, fridges and robot vacuum cleaners with a slew of home appliance brands announcing that their products will feature the startups artificial intelligence models. Hangzhou-based DeepSeeks large language models upended...

Why countries are banning DeepSeek?
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek created ripples in the tech industry when it launched its ultra-cheap challenger to OpenAIs ChatGPT, getting millions of downloads within just weeks. After enjoying its fair share of stardom for being cheaper and a better answer to ChatGPT, Gemini and others, DeepSeek is...

South Korea suspends new downloads of DeepSeek
South Koreas data protection authority on Monday said new downloads of the Chinese AI app DeepSeek had been suspended in the country after DeepSeek acknowledged failing to take into account some of the agencys rules on protecting personal data. The service of the app will be resumed once...

DeepSeek drives $1.3 trillion China stock rally as funds pile in
DeepSeeks breakthrough in artificial intelligence is helping drive a rotation of stock funds back into China from India. Hedge funds have beenpiling intoChinese equities at the fastest pace in months as bullishness on the DeepSeek-driven technology rally adds to hopes for more economic stimulus....

DeepSeek gives China's chipmakers leg up in race for cheaper AI
The rise of DeepSeeks artificial intelligence (AI) models is seen providing some Chinese chipmakers such as Huawei a better chance to compete in the domestic market against more powerful U.S. processors, reports Reuters. Huawei and its Chinese peers have for years struggled to match Nvidia in...

Chinese auto giant BYD to integrate DeepSeek in cars
Shares in Chinese automaker BYD jumped on Tuesday after it unveiled plans to unroll advanced self-driving technology on nearly all its cars, including budget models priced below $10,000. The company also said it would integrate AI startup Deepseeks software into its cars, following domestic...

DeepSeek boosts tech stocks in China, Hong Kong amid easing trade concerns
Chinese and Hong Kong stocks saw broad gains on Monday, with optimism surrounding AI startup DeepSeek continuing to drive the tech sector higher. Better-than-expected inflation data also helped boost investor sentiment, analysts told Khaleej Times. The Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.3%,...

Which countries have banned DeepSeek AI?
DeepSeek came in and shook the artificial intelligence (AI) industry all over the world, and by the looks of it, some governments too. It was seen as Chinas answer to ChatGPT. In a matter of days of its AI chatbot going viral, the Chinese startup finds itself in the crosshairs of several...

China’s DeepSeek gives Europe’s tech firms a way to catch up in global AI arms race
Hemanth Mandapati, boss of German start-up Novo AI, was an early adopter of DeepSeek technology when he switched to the Chinese firms artificial intelligence (AI) model from ChatGPT creator OpenAIs own model two weeks ago. If you have built your application using OpenAI, you can easily migrate...

Texas authority bans DeepSeek, RedNote from government devices
Texas governor Greg Abbott has banned the use of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence platform, on state-issued devices, making Texas the first U.S. state to impose such a restriction. The move comes as DeepSeek gains traction in the U.S., shaking up the AI industry with its ability to rival...

Sensitive DeepSeek data exposed to web, cyber firm says
In a blog post, published Wednesday, Wiz said that scans of DeepSeeks infrastructure showed that the company had accidentally left more than a million lines of data available unsecured. Those included digital software keys and chat logs that appeared to capture prompts being sent from users to the...

Microsoft and Meta CEOs defend heavy AI spending after DeepSeek breakthrough
Days after Chinese upstart DeepSeek revealed a breakthrough in cheap AI computing that shook the U.S. technology industry, the chief executives of Microsoft and Meta defended massive spending that they said was key to staying competitive in the new field. DeepSeeks quick progress has stirred...

Alibaba releases AI model it says surpasses DeepSeek
Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3. The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Maxs release, on the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are off work...

US tech stocks rebound after DeepSeek shock
US technology stocks rebounded on Tuesday after Mondays massive selloff triggered by Chinas DeepSeek AI model, which raised concerns over the dominance of US firms. Nvidia, which lost nearly $593 billion in market value on Monday, surged 8.9 percent as bargain hunters stepped in. The broader...

OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Gov for US as DeepSeek gains traction
OpenAI announced on Tuesday a customized version of ChatGPT specifically for US government agencies. This launch comes at a time when the industry is still grappling with the rise of a cost-efficient Chinese AI startup, and as President Trump has called on tech companies to stay ahead of the...

DeepSeek a 'wake-up call' for US tech firms: Trump
US President Donald Trump has called the rise of Chinese company DeepSeek a wake-up call for the US tech industry, after the emergence of its artificial intelligence (AI) model triggered shockwaves on Wall Street on Monday. Shares in major tech firms such as Nvidia fell sharply, with the chip...

Tech selloff deepens as DeepSeek triggers AI rethink
A global market rout continued on Tuesday as investors reevaluated the high valuations and dominance of AI giants, triggered by the emergence of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model. The selloff, which started on Monday, saw Japanese technology shares particularly hard-hit, following...

Chinese AI chatbot sparks market turmoil for rivals
Stocks in major US technology firms have fallen sharply in value after the sudden emergence of a low-cost chatbot built by a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek. The DeepSeek app, which was launched last week, has overtaken rivals including ChatGPT to become the most downloaded...

DeepSeek overtakes ChatGPT on Apple App Store
Chinese startup DeepSeeks AI Assistant on Monday overtook rival ChatGPT to become the top-rated free application available on Apples App Store in the United States. Powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, which its creators say tops the leaderboard among open-source models and rivals the most advanced...