Fangcun AI, an independent group in Beijing, tested DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash-1017 model. In 39% of runs with a shutdown warning, it disabled the command, a rate that fell to 2% when told to allow shutdown.
The Chinese startup closed a $15 billion round backed by Tencent and CATL right after Washington banned federal agencies from using its AI. The company's valuation doubled to roughly $70 billion.
Brooklyn-based Reflection AI unveiled Beam, an open-weight model meant to rival China's DeepSeek, Qwen and Kimi K3, which currently dominate the open-source AI race.
The UN Security Council heard OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and Moonshot together for the first time on AI risks. Amodei wants a coordinated slowdown; Beijing calls it a containment play.
GreyNoise details how a pairing of OpenAI's Codex and a DeepSeek model, with almost no human involvement, breached 395 organizations across 48 countries in hours by exploiting flaws in PaperCut print servers.
NSA, CISA and the FBI issued a rare joint advisory naming DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI and three other firms for industrial-scale distillation of Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since late 2024.
DeepSeek is closing a $7.4 billion round at a $74 billion valuation, up sharply from June. The cash funds compute and talent retention as the Chinese AI lab eyes a 2027 Shanghai IPO.
A China-based hacker pointed DeepSeek at the open internet and let it hunt for weak servers on its own. It scanned over 460 targets and breached Citrix NetScaler before researchers caught it by accident.
The maker of Kimi K3, the model that rattled Asian markets and dented Nasdaq last week, is moving toward a Hong Kong listing. Its valuation has climbed nearly sevenfold in under two years, past $30 billion.
