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DeepSeek breaks China’s AI price war with peak-hour surge pricing

DeepSeek will double the price of its V4 AI models during peak hours from mid-July, reversing the China price war it started. Even the cheapest blinks.
Android Authority

Using DeepSeek in the US? You could be fined $1 million and go to jail under proposed law

A new bill proposes banning the importation and use of China-made AI tech in the US, including potential penalties for those using DeepSeek. Offending businesses face fines of up to $100 million and ...
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 ...
DIGITIMES

DeepSeek V4 introduces utility-style AI pricing in shift beyond China's LLM price war

DeepSeek will launch the official version of its V4 large language model (LLM) in mid-July alongside peak and off-peak API ...

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.

DeepSeek V4 DeepSpec Signals a New Era for Open-Source AI, Boosting AI Efficiency By 85%

Explore how DeepSeek V4 DeepSpec and Zepu AI's GLM 5.5 are closing the gap with frontier models like Claude Mythos in 2026.
techtimes

DeepSeek Targets $59 Billion in First-Ever Raise: What China’s Cheapest AI Still Cannot Match

The DeepSeek logo is seen on a display at a shopping mall in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province on April 23, 2026. CN-STR/Getty Images DeepSeek, the Hangzhou artificial intelligence ...
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 ...
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Multiple plugins for JetBrains IDEs steal API keys for OpenAI, DeepSeek & Co.

Plugins have appeared on JetBrains' official marketplace that exfiltrate API keys for AI models. They do not contain typical malware that searches the computer for credentials but rather transmits a ...
Yahoo Finance

Microsoft CoPilot Flirts with DeepSeek Squeezing Out Frontier Labs

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China's DeepSeek plans to at least double staff in all departments

BEIJING, June 25 (Reuters) - China's AI startup DeepSeek said it plans to at least double the number of staff in all departments as part of its ongoing AI push, according to a recruitment notice it ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Mulls China’s DeepSeek for Copilot, Probably to Trump’s Chagrin

Microsoft, now free of the shackles that previously tied it to OpenAI, apparently has eyes for other AI models—particularly ones that are cheap. According to a report from Axios, tokenmaxxing is ...