Today's stories PaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ Instances T The Hacker News 3h ago DeepSeek’s New Low-Cost Model Deals a Fresh Blow to OpenAI, Z.ai B Bloomberg 4h ago China rejects the US distillation advisory as unfounded accusations and smears T The Next Web 6h ago This week DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway V M T Covered by 3 sources 2d ago U.S. Agencies Issue Stern Rebuke of China-Based AI Companies Over Alleged Distillation G E A Covered by 3 sources 1d ago NSA, CISA, FBI Warn China-Based AI Firms Distill US Frontier Models U T Covered by 2 sources 2d ago The NSA, CISA, and FBI issue a joint advisory warning that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, are conducting "industrial-scale" distillation campaigns (Reuters) T Techmeme 2d ago DeepSeek says it is seeking ~150 senior engineers in an "unprecedented" hiring spree to overhaul its backend systems, strained by high user demand and AI agents (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post) T Techmeme 2d ago Resect launches with $25M to reduce hallucinations in AI models S SiliconANGLE 6d ago DeepSeek plans large Huawei chip order for new Inner Mongolia data centre T The Next Web 6d ago Five AI systems, one message: one cloned the repo and ran the check H Hacker News 7d ago This month Z.AI Misses Lofty Sales Estimates As China AI Brawl Worsens B T Covered by 2 sources 10d ago Speed Up LLM Inference with DSpark Speculative Decoding K KDnuggets 10d ago Metis Agent, open source, that boosts AI coding performance by 50% H Hacker News 13d ago Everything we know about Z.ai, the Chinese company behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model B Business Insider 13d ago CMS with AI, Not AI CMS: Wagtail 8.0's New API H Hacker News 14d ago Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn T T Covered by 2 sources 16d ago Kraftapp AI – Describe it. We build it. Customers find it H Hacker News 15d ago Nvidia in $6 billion deal to create competitor to Chinese AI models — WSJ T TASS English 19d ago DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic T T Covered by 2 sources 20d ago DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway V Vercel 21d ago The Open-Sourcing of DeepSeek Harness Opens the Door to Modular, Unbundled AI Agent Infrastructure I InfoQ (AI, ML & Data) 21d ago Anthropic becomes the 'Apple of AI': Most revenue despite being most expensive H T U Covered by 3 sources 24d ago A Beijing bar swapped free Wi-Fi for free DeepSeek tokens T The Next Web 24d ago DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek Harness in Developer Preview: An MIT-Licensed Agent Harness Where Everything is a Plugin M MarkTechPost 24d ago DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update H L P Covered by 3 sources Jul 31 DeepSeek Ships V4 Pro as Its Flagship Model Leaves Preview U S Covered by 2 sources 29d ago DeepSeek Publicizes Efforts to Challenge Anthropic’s Claude Code B Bloomberg 29d ago The Open Source AI Popularity Leaderboard from Scarf H Hacker News 30d ago DeepSeek overtakes Google on volume, cost per token falls 13.6% V Vercel 30d ago DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years H Hacker News Aug 10 DeepSeek Invests in Unitree to Develop AI Brain for Humanoid Bots A AI Business Aug 7 DeepSeek Buys Into Unitree’s Shanghai IPO in Humanoid AI Pact U Unite.AI Aug 6 Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥 H Hugging Face Aug 6 CISA Flags Langflow RCE, Tomcat, and N-central Flaws as Actively Exploited T The Hacker News Aug 5 DeepSeek V4 Flash is 90% off through Novita on AI Gateway V Vercel Aug 4 deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 S Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 31 DeepSeek Upgrades DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 with Major Agentic and Coding Gains M MarkTechPost Jul 31 Chinese AI Researchers Are Finding Their Voice on X W Wired Jul 31 Chinese Hacker Commands DeepSeek via Telegram to Launch Autonomous Attacks T The Hacker News Jul 31 A million words costs $50 from Anthropic and 87 cents from DeepSeek. Corporate America noticed. T The Next Web Jul 27 DeepSeek’s Normally Boring CEO Is Reportedly Spiraling After Supposed Leak G T Covered by 2 sources Jul 25 China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook W Wired Jul 22 America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI T The Verge Jul 21 Kai-Fu Lee stopped building AI models and started selling enterprise data infrastructure. Now 01.ai is heading for a Hong Kong IPO. T The Next Web Jul 20 An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech T G Covered by 2 sources Jul 17 A luggage maker’s filing just pinned DeepSeek at $52bn T The Next Web Jul 17 DeepSeek is preparing an IPO and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after its first raise T The Next Web Jul 15 DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng overtakes Amodei and Brockman as AI’s richest founder T The Next Web Jul 14 US Companies Are Realizing That Chinese AI Models Are Way Cheaper, Ditch American Ones F Futurism Jul 13 Xi Jinping will give the keynote at China’s flagship AI summit for the first time T The Next Web Jul 13 American Tech Companies Are Suddenly Sweating Bullets as China Catches Up on AI F Futurism Jul 9 DeepSeek is reportedly designing its own AI chip to sidestep US curbs T The Next Web Jul 7 DeepSeek breaks China’s AI price war with peak-hour surge pricing T The Next Web Jul 1 DeepSeek’s $7.4bn raise is one symptom of China’s AI cash surge T The Next Web Jun 29 US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek and 100-plus Chinese firms T The Next Web Jun 17 Microsoft Mulls China’s DeepSeek for Copilot, Probably to Trump’s Chagrin G T Covered by 2 sources Jun 16 DeepSeek closes $7bn-plus round with an unusual structure T The Next Web Jun 16 DeepSeek lines up its first outside money: a $7bn round at up to $59bn T The Next Web Jun 3 China extends AI travel curbs from DeepSeek to other private firms T The Next Web May 26 Showing the 60 most recent of 70 stories on DeepSeek