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DeepSeek is the Chinese AI lab whose V3 and R1 models reset expectations about how much compute a frontier model actually needs. We follow every DeepSeek release, the US-China AI competition implications, and the open-weights strategy.

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DeepSeek and MiniMax clear China's new AI export registration rules
Security

DeepSeek and MiniMax clear China's new AI export registration rules

The CCTV-affiliated Yuyuan Tantian account says both firms finished open-source and overseas licensing filings under Beijing's 23-item AI export catalog.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
DeepSeek nears $15B funding round with CATL and Tencent as top backers
Business

DeepSeek nears $15B funding round with CATL and Tencent as top backers

The roughly 100 billion yuan raise doubles DeepSeek's original 50 billion yuan target and pulls in more than 15 investors.

Jaeden Schafer3 min read
DeepSeek's annualised revenue run rate hits $1 billion
Business

DeepSeek's annualised revenue run rate hits $1 billion

The Chinese AI lab that shocked US markets in January has quietly built a real revenue business alongside its open-weight model releases.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Cisco Talos releases CAIRN, uncovers malware run by a four-LLM hive mind
Security

Cisco Talos releases CAIRN, uncovers malware run by a four-LLM hive mind

New open-source framework flagged CLOSEDQUORUM, which polls DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, and Gemini for its next move with no human in the loop.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Analysis

China rejects Anthropic's call to pace AI development

Beijing officials and Chinese AI researchers dismiss Dario Amodei's slowdown proposal as a ploy to lock in a US lead.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Security

Anthropic blocks scientists from using Claude for bioweapon research

The company detailed five cases where users circumvented controls to probe biological threats, including avian influenza work from a banned region.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Anthropic says China labs ran 200M-exchange distillation attack on Claude

Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek tied to five campaigns harvesting Claude's reasoning traces, with one Moonshot request routed from the Chinese military.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
US names six Chinese AI firms in industrial-scale distillation campaign
Security

US names six Chinese AI firms in industrial-scale distillation campaign

The NSA, CISA and FBI accuse DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI of siphoning capabilities from Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
DeepSeek hires CITIC Securities for a domestic China IPO
Business

DeepSeek hires CITIC Securities for a domestic China IPO

The Hangzhou model lab is preparing a mainland listing, choosing China's largest brokerage as sponsor rather than a Hong Kong or offshore route.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Ulanqab emerges as China's biggest AI data center hub with 12.5GW pledged
Business

Ulanqab emerges as China's biggest AI data center hub with 12.5GW pledged

DeepSeek, ByteDance and Alibaba are among the Chinese firms racing to build in the Inner Mongolian city, dwarfing OpenAI's 10GW Stargate footprint.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

Anthropic Q2 revenue hits $11.5B, a 14-fold jump ahead of IPO

Claude's maker crossed $11.5B in a single quarter and posted positive adjusted operating income as it lines up a fall listing.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna 80% as Anthropic undercuts its own flagship

US token prices have dropped nearly a quarter since mid-July as DoorDash and Airbnb shift workloads to Chinese models from Moonshot and DeepSeek.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
DeepSeek founder says AGI trumps profit, top models to stay open-source
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DeepSeek founder says AGI trumps profit, top models to stay open-source

Liang Wenfeng told Yicai that DeepSeek will keep releasing its frontier models as open weights, prioritising AGI over commercial returns.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
UK AISI: open-weight models now trail closed AI on cyber by 4-7 months
Security

UK AISI: open-weight models now trail closed AI on cyber by 4-7 months

GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro closed the cyber capability gap from 6-10 months to 4-7 months. Kimi K3 is next in line.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Analysis

LLMs stereotype job candidates 65% more than humans in Princeton hiring study

OpenAI's o3 scored 1.83 on a segregation scale where 2 is total sorting — and reasoning models were the worst offenders.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Moonshot's Kimi K3 aims to match Anthropic's Opus 4.8 as valuation hits $31.5B
Models

Moonshot's Kimi K3 aims to match Anthropic's Opus 4.8 as valuation hits $31.5B

The Chinese lab's next open-weight model will run 2–3 trillion parameters, the largest ever released from China.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Open-weight models overtake frontier labs in developer downloads
Analysis

Open-weight models overtake frontier labs in developer downloads

Chinese open models took 41% of Hugging Face downloads this spring, and the top six models on OpenRouter are all open — Claude Opus 4.7 sits seventh.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Analysis

Open source AI is winning token volume, but Anthropic still owns the spend

DeepSeek now handles a third of tokens on Vercel's gateway, yet Anthropic still captures more than half of AI spend on the platform.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
DeepSeek plans its own inference chips to cut Nvidia and Huawei reliance
Models

DeepSeek plans its own inference chips to cut Nvidia and Huawei reliance

The Chinese LLM developer has spent about a year on a silicon project targeting data center inference, per Reuters.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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NVIDIA Blackwell runs 20x more agents per megawatt on new AgentPerf benchmark

Artificial Analysis launches the first agentic AI benchmark, and the GB300 NVL72 takes the top spot against Hopper on DeepSeek V4 Pro.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Quilty bets AI can predict box-office hits — and gets Sinners wrong
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Quilty bets AI can predict box-office hits — and gets Sinners wrong

The startup's script-scoring tool rated flop Christy above Sinners, which grossed $370 million and won an Oscar.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
DeepSeek lines up $7B maiden fundraise, its first outside capital
Business

DeepSeek lines up $7B maiden fundraise, its first outside capital

The Chinese AI lab behind R1 is moving from self-funded curiosity to venture-backed frontier player with a single round larger than most of its rivals' lifetime totals.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
OpenRouter raises $113M Series B at $1.3B valuation
Business

OpenRouter raises $113M Series B at $1.3B valuation

The AI gateway startup more than doubled its value in a year as token volume surged 5x.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Analysis

Nvidia's real moat is CUDA, not silicon

A matrix multiply that takes three lines in PyTorch takes 50-plus in CUDA — and that gap is why AMD and Intel keep losing.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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