China
DeepSeek’s popular AI app is explicitly sending US data to China — Wired
Users have already reported several examples of DeepSeek censoring content that is critical of China or its policies, writes Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman.
DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it’s limiting registrations — CNBC
DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services; writes Hayden Field.
Viral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model family — TC
The models, which are available for download from the AI dev platform Hugging Face, are part of a new model family that DeepSeek is calling Janus-Pro, writes Kyle Wiggers.
The US Treasury Department was hacked — The Verge
The threat actor stole a key used by BeyondTrust “to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical support for Treasury Departmental Offices (DO) end users, writes Emma Roth.
TikTok and its Chinese owner sue US government over “foreign adversary” law — Ars Technica
TikTok and its owner ByteDance today sued the federal government to block the "Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications" law that would prohibit TikTok in the US if the company isn't sold to a non-Chinese firm, writes Jon Brodkin in Ars Technica.