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Anthropic Removes Hidden Claude Code Tracker After Researchers Raise Privacy Concerns

Anthropic says the tool was designed to stop abuse and AI model extraction, but critics questioned the use of undisclosed ...

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.
Tech Times

DeepSeek Releases DSpark: Speculative Decoding Makes V4 Up to 85 Percent Faster

DeepSeek speculative decoding framework DSpark went live June 27 on V4-Flash and V4-Pro, reporting up to 85 percent faster ...
scmp.com

DeepSeek’s Harness team races to recruit talent in booming AI agent market

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek is rapidly expanding its new Harness team as it pushes itself into the booming AI agent market, joining the high-stakes global race to transform ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious JetBrains Marketplace plugins steal AI API keys from developers

At least 15 malicious plugins found on the JetBrains Marketplace were designed to steal AI API keys from developers. The campaign, discovered by Aikido Security, includes plugins that act as AI coding ...
Seeking Alpha

DeepSeek completes record $7B-plus fundraising, valuation tops $50B - report

Editor's note: The revised post has been updated with additional information. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek (DEEPSEEK) has completed a record-breaking funding round of over $7B, bringing the company's ...
The Next Web

DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.

DeepSeek permanently cut V4 Pro prices by 75%, to $0.87 per million output tokens. It undercuts GPT-5, Gemini, and Claude. DeepSeek has made permanent the 75% price discount on its flagship V4 Pro ...
Engadget

DeepSeek permanently reduces the price of its flagship V4 model by 75 percent

DeepSeek is leaning hard into being the "cost-effective" choice for AI agents. According to its website, the Chinese startup is dropping the price for its latest flagship model, DeepSeek V4 Pro, to a ...
Bloomberg L.P.

DeepSeek To Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model

DeepSeek said it will make permanent a steep discount on its flagship V4‑Pro model, maintaining prices for developers at a quarter of their original level. In a statement on its website, DeepSeek ...
Android

DeepSeek Makes Aggressive 75% Price Cut to Weaponize Western AI Rate Limit Anger

Initially, DeepSeek framed the discount as a short-term promotional campaign in April. However, given the user backlash against increasingly restrictive Western AI chatbots, the company has made the ...
The Next Web

DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its entire API to a tenth

The promotional discount runs until 5 May 2026. Even at full price, V4-Pro already undercuts GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on per-token costs. The move is a direct challenge to the ...
Boston Herald

China’s DeepSeek rolls out a long-anticipated update of its AI model

HONG KONG (AP) — DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that shook world markets last year, launched preview versions of its latest major update Friday as the AI rivalry between China ...